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    "localId": "329320",
    "label": "Musical Scene",
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    "id": "329320",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Musical Scene",
    "description": "The Utrecht artist Gerrit van Honthorst was internationally known as a portrait painter, but he also gained a reputation as a painter of raucous musical scenes and parties. This drawing was once part of an album of compositional types that the artist showed to prospective patrons. Though the cheerful theme of a man and a woman sharing a song seems innocent, such unions often had amorous or lascivious connotations in 17th-century Holland.",
    "date": "1625–55",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.6",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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        "Drawing"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.6/2019.6_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.6/2019.6_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Support: 23.3 x 26.8 x 0.3 cm (9 3/16 x 10 9/16 x 1/8 in.); Image: 17.3 x 20.2 cm (6 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Netherlands"
    ],
    "accession": "2019.6"
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    "tec": "black ink wash over pen and brown ink and black chalk over graphite on gray-brown paper with white heightening, incised",
    "tombstone": "Musical Scene, 1625–55. Gerrit van Honthorst (Dutch, 1590–1656). Black ink wash over pen and brown ink and black chalk over graphite on gray-brown paper with white heightening, incised; support: 23.3 x 26.8 x 0.3 cm (9 3/16 x 10 9/16 x 1/8 in.); image: 17.3 x 20.2 cm (6 13/16 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 2019.6",
    "collection": "DR - Dutch",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "inscribed “no 27” in black chalk, lower right on antique laid tan textured paper",
            "inscription_remark": "The hand and medium of “no 27” matches a Honthorst drawing in the Rijksmuseum (RP-T-2015-52) suggesting common origin in an album"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "In 17th-century Holland, scenes of men and women playing music together often had amorous connotations.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Peters, Emily. “Acquisitions 2019: Drawings.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>60, no. 2 (March/April 2020): 20-21.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 21."
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.6",
    "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:56:31.956000",
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    "sourceId": 329320,
    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - Dutch",
    "med": "black ink wash over pen and brown ink and black chalk over graphite on gray-brown paper with white heightening, incised",
    "creatorTags": [
        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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