The Dutch artist Gerrit van Hoonthorst studied painting in Rome in the first half of the 1610s, when there was at the zenith the glory of the recently deceased Caravaggio. Therefore, his paintings are marked by the influence that the art of the master had on him. It manifested itself in the choice of the topic, and in the picturesque decision of the scene, which was characteristic of his already mature creativity.
In this picture, in a room illuminated by a ray of light falling from somewhere from the upper window, the company gathered around the table is depicted: a smartly dressed musician playing a viola da gamba, while a young man and a girl are singing, holding notes in their hands. The artist endowed the participants of the improvised concert with various emotions: the musician looks fervently at the singers, the young man is completely absorbed in singing, the girl looks at the notes with concentrated concentration, the inspiration is on her face, and the old woman who is seen behind probably wants to insert her word. But Van Hongturst would not have been Dutch if he had not brought a comic tint to the canvas: the girl touching the song, at the same time reaching out to the boy’s ear, trying to take off the earring, the old woman probably advises her how to make it invisible, and even I made a purse. A musician because of this “
The second meaning, hidden in the usual genre scene, turns the picture into a short story. Raju I’ll give you such a concert, better than Gerrit van Hoonthorst – hahah
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