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A pair of good-humoured and energetic musicians are visiting an inn – the sign hanging outside shows a jug and a pair of compasses. One plays a hurdy-gurdy (a bagpipe-like instrument), the other a fiddle. The picture is an example of an eighteenth-century German painter imitating a seventeenth-century Dutch artist; in this case, the composition is based on a work by Adriaen van Ostade, a well-known painter of everyday scenes, and it is done in his style. Dietrich most probably knew van Ostade’s version from an engraving. Dietrich has signed the work at the bottom right-hand corner and dated it 1745 (he later made an etching of the composition). His friend, the engraver Jean-George Wille, owned the painting and it became well known through a print that he made from it.
Title
The Wandering Musicians
Date
1745
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 43.3 x W 33 cm
Accession number
NG205
Acquisition method
Bequeathed by Richard Simmons, 1846
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
Trafalgar Square, London, Greater London WC2N 5DN England
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