# Music-Making Couple

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duyster-willem-cornelisz-rf8d5777c36b2b4/music-making-couple-rc7af915446c192>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [DUYSTER, Willem Cornelisz.](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duyster-willem-cornelisz-rf8d5777c36b2b4>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on oak, 43 x 36 cm

## Commentary

In this painting a pensive, richly dressed young woman is listening to a lutenist who has his back to her. Rather than appearing to be a marital portrait, this picture may instead come closer to a genre scene. &lt;P&gt; &lt;TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR=&#34;\#99CCCC&#34;&gt; &lt;TR VALIGN=MIDDLE&gt;&lt;TD&gt;&lt;IMG SRC=&#34;/support/gif/listen.gif&#34; BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE&gt; Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 17 minutes\):&lt;BR&gt;&lt;A HREF=&#34;\#&#34; onClick=&#34;w=window.open \(&#39;/music1/17\_cent/lully\_bourgeois.html&#39;, &#39;newWin&#39;, &#39;scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350&#39;\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true&#34;&gt;&lt;B&gt;Jean-Baptiste Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, suite&lt;/B&gt;&lt;/A&gt; &lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;

## Related artworks

- [Allegory of Hearing](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duyster-willem-cornelisz-rf8d5777c36b2b4/allegory-of-hearing-r993a2bd78bb192>)
- [Card-Playing Soldiers](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duyster-willem-cornelisz-rf8d5777c36b2b4/card-playing-soldiers-ra898b4f966dd05>)
- [Carnival Clowns](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duyster-willem-cornelisz-rf8d5777c36b2b4/carnival-clowns-rb6c91921603f2f>)
- [Soldiers beside a Fireplace](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duyster-willem-cornelisz-rf8d5777c36b2b4/soldiers-beside-a-fireplace-r88d6fc630bacbe>)
- [Soldiers beside a Fireplace](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duyster-willem-cornelisz-rf8d5777c36b2b4/soldiers-beside-a-fireplace-rfff45ffd1fb490>)
- [The Marauders](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duyster-willem-cornelisz-rf8d5777c36b2b4/the-marauders-r7560113729326e>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)