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A Cheerful Violin Player
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The man wearing extravagant Italian-looking clothing takes us by surprise. He appears from behind a tapestry and leans out of the window. He tries to engage with the viewer in order to clink glasses. So lifelike and convincing is Honthorst’s rendering that the fiddler seems to have slipped out from the frame of the painting to join us.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineEen vrolijke vioolspeler. 1623. Gerard van Honthorst. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
