‘Eruditio Musica, Solo Sung by Madame Colin’

Christiaan Andriessen (1775-1846), watercolour, over a sketch in pencil, 1807

Andriessen and his family regularly attended concerts by the Eruditio Musica Orchestra in the High German Theatre in Amsterdam. On this evening, Joseph Haydn’s The Seasons was performed, a musical composition that at that time was not even eight years old. A certain ‘Madame Colin’ sang a solo. The audience’s casual mood is striking. Two gentlemen converse in the left foreground, while another one steps unabashedly over a bench at the right.

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-1969-90
  • Dimensionsheight 180 mm x width 258 mm
  • Physical characteristicspen in grijs, gehoogd met witte dekverf, penseel in waterverf in kleuren