Jan Miense Molenaar, Jan Molenaer (I), Johan Molenaer, Jan Miensz. Molenaer, Johannes Molenaer, Johannes Miense Molenaer, Johannes Miensz. Molenaer, Monogrammist IMR
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Dutch painter, drawer and printmaker
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1609 or 1610
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MOLENAER, Jan Miense
(b. ca. 1610, Haarlem, d. 1668, Haarlem)
Painter in His Studio, Painting a Musical Company
1631
Oil on canvas, 86 x 127 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Molenaer seems to comment on his own pictorial practice, as he frequently represented musical companies. The comic character of that genre and of this picture is signal led by the dwarf and the monkey, stock figures of comedy. Many self-portraits and paintings of studios featured musical instruments, as allusions to the inspiring qualities of music.
Molenaer had a penchant for painting dwarfs, that in this picture plays a conspicuous role.
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Author: MOLENAER, Jan Miense
Title: Painter in His Studio, Painting a Musical Company
Time-line: 1601-1650
School: Dutch
Form: painting