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Photo, Print, Drawing The Flute Lesson

About this Item

Title

  • The Flute Lesson

Names

  • Valck, Gerard, 1651/52-1726

Created / Published

  • late 17th-early 18th century

Headings

  • -  Art reproduction
  • -  Music lesson
  • -  art

Genre

  • art

Notes

  • -  Related Names: Vaillant, Wallerant, 1623-1677; Rath, Georg , 1828-1904
  • -  Artist Nationality: Dutch
  • -  Medium: Mezzotint.
  • -  Original Artist: Zyl, Gerard Pietersz. van, 1607-1665, called Geraers or Gerards Geraers
  • -  Provenance: Henning Oppermann, Basel, Aug. 1930.
  • -  Instrument(s): Recorder
  • -  late 17th-early 18th century
  • -  Artist Notes: after a mezzotint by Wallerant Vaillant, painter, draughtsman, and mezzotint engraver, 1623-1677, based on painting by Gerard Pietersz. van Zyl, called Geraers or Gerards Geraers, portrait and genre painter, 1607-1665
  • -  Dayton Miller Category: Works of art - - Groups of Musicians Indoors
  • -  Inscription: Recto: l. l.: (just beneath image) Geraers pinx. ; G. Valck exud.. ; verso: u. r.: (in pencil) 1l 44 4 [Rrd?] ; l. l.: (very faint pencil notations, most illegible) [?] / 6054 / [?] / [?] / [H Vail ...?] ; bottom center: (in pencil) 18467 / 20.167 ; l. l.: (tiny blue-green stamp with monogram, having a simple vertical rectangular frame with the upper left and right corners cut inward at 45 degree angles) CR or GR ; l. l.: (in pencil) C575/345

Medium

  • 10 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (27.0 x 21.0 cm.)

Source Collection

  • Dayton C. Miller Collection

Repository

  • music division

Digital Id

Online Format

  • image
  • pdf

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Four full-size drawings of flutes DCM 0507, DCM 0615, DCM 0916, and DCM 1125 by Jean-François Beaudin, Québec, Canada. 2003. Please make written requests for permission for other uses to:

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The quotation regarding Dr. Miller and his gold flute comes from an article by Robert S. Shankland, "Dayton Clarence Miller: Physics Across Fifty Years." American Journal of Physics 9(October 1941):273-283. LC call number: QC1.A47. It was reprinted here with permission from the American Journal of Physics 9(October 1941):278. Copyright 1941, American Association of Physics Teachers. Should you wish to quote from this article, please contact:

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The image of the Faun playing an aulos by Rea Irvin, Miller no. 57/G, comes from the cover of The New Yorker magazine, 14 March 1925. It is reproduced here without The New Yorker masthead as required by Condé Nast Publications, New York. Permission to reproduce the Faun only as a thumbnail-size image, and without the masthead, is Courtesy of the Irvin Estate. No reproduction without permission. For reproduction permission, please contact:

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Credit line: Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress

"Dayton C. Miller, His Life, Work and Contributions as a Scientist and Organologist" is made available here with permission from the author, William J. Maynard. HTML version of this text

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Credit line: Dayton C. Miller Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Valck, Gerard, 1651/52-1726. The Flute Lesson. , 1670. Late 17th-Early 18th Century. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/musdcmicon.0256/.

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Valck, G. (1670) The Flute Lesson. , 1670. Late 17th-Early 18th Century. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/musdcmicon.0256/.

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Valck, Gerard, 1651/52-1726. The Flute Lesson. Late 17th-Early 18th Century. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/musdcmicon.0256/>.