# Boy Playing a Fife [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TERBRUGGHEN, Hendrick]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 71 x 56 cm ## Commentary In his genre paintings, Terbrugghen, instead of using small figures in a spatious setting, as his contemporaries did, concentrated \(following the style of Caravaggio\) on one or only a few figures, mostly life-size, seen close to and strongly outlined against a plain background. What these pictures shared, however, with those of the contemporaries, was the moral content. The actual meaning of the Fife Player is difficult to establish, it might be an illustration of Hearing, as one of the Five Senses. ## Related artworks - [A Laughing Bravo with a Bass Viol and a Glass]() - [Bagpipe Player]() - [Boy Lighting a Pipe from a Candle]() - [Boy Playing a Recorder]() - [Christ Crowned with Thorns]() - [Democritus]() - [Duet]() - [Esau Selling His Birthright]() - [Esau Selling His Birthright]() - [Girl Holding a Tankard and a Glass]() - [Heraclitus]() - [Jacob Reproaching Laban]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()