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Man with a flute
Hendrick ter Brugghen1625
Skokloster Castle
Skoklosters, Sweden
Dated on upper right corner of the canvas An°1625. The painting depicts a bearded man holding a flute looking straight at the beholder executed in a Baburen-like manner with all the characteristics of the Caravaggio inspired artists from Utrecht. According to Leonard Slatkes, the unsigned and not dated painting with the same composition called Man with a flute was probably part of a series representing the five senses of which it was Hearing. The series also included the painting Man with a pipe and jug, earlier in the collection of Ludwig Baldass in Vienna.
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- Title: Man with a flute
- Creator: Hendrik Ter Brugghen, Dirck Van Baburen
- Creator Nationality: Dutch
- Creator Gender: male
- Creator Death Place: Utrecht
- Creator Birth Place: Utrecht
- Date Created: 1625
- artist: The joint workshop of Dirck Van Baburen and Hendrick Ter Brugghen
- Tags: Genre painting, Utrecht school
- Provenance: Magnus Brahe (1790-1844), Stockholm 1845, Skokloster Castle 1848
- Physical Dimensions: w620 x h740 mm (Without frame)
- Artist info: This dated but unsigned painting has the same composition as the one know as Man with a flute (present location unknown, formerly P. de Boer, Amsterdam) attributed to the joint workshop of Hendrick Ter Brugghen and Dirck van Baburen, which they supposedly shared in Utrecht during the early 1620s. Although, clearly the same in composition, this painting at Skokloster differs from the other in the expression of the face, most notably the left side, which could suggest that they were painted by different hands. The date on the canvas most likely excludes Baburen as the only artist, but connects the painting to a case of similar dated studio replicas like Singer by Baburen.
- Additional info: For further information regarding the painting referred to as Man with a flute see Slatkes 1965, Dirck van Baburen, Fig 47, Cat. D5, and Slatkes & Frantis 2007, The paintings of Hendrick Ter Brugghen, WTBVB 18, Plate 113.
- Type: Oil on canvas
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