# The Music-Makers [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MOLENAER, Jan Miense]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 63 x 46 cm ## Commentary In a plainly furnished room a young woman sits behind a table singing while the man sitting in the foreground plays a guitar. The colourful clothing of the music-makers, the still life composed by the objects on the table and the gently melancholic attitudes of the young people closeted together in this intimate corner of the room all contribute to the homely atmosphere of the picture. The painting is signed to the right on the threshold: MOLENAER. ## Related artworks - [A Quack and His Assistant]() - [Allegory of Vanity \(detail\)]() - [Amorous Couple in an Inn]() - [Battle between Carnival and Lent]() - [Drinking Peasants]() - [Interior with a Violinist]() - [Interior with Children Drinking and Mischief-Making]() - [Painter in His Studio, Painting a Musical Company]() - [Peasant Wedding]() - [Peasants in an Inn Playing "La Main Chaude"]() - [Peasants in an Inn Playing "La Main Chaude"]() - [Peasants in the Tavern]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()