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The Violin Player
168517th century
279 x 250 mm (11 x 9.8 in.)
Cornelis Dusart, Dutch, (1660–1704)
- genre - Use for pictorial representations, which may be in various media, that represent scenes or events from everyday life; usually used with another term such as "paintings" or "prints." [April 1991 descriptor moved.]
- music - The art concerned with the combining of vocal or instrumental sounds in measured time to communicate emotions, ideas, or states of mind, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in most Western music, harmony. [January 1995 scope note added. December 1991 related term added; related term added.]
- musical instruments - Sound-producing apparatuses whose primary function is to play music.
- musicians - Those skilled or specializing in the art or practice of music, such as composers, conductors, and performers. [January 1995 scope note added. February 1993 descriptor moved. November 1992 alternate term added. March 1992 related terms added.]
- violins - The soprano members of the violin family, having a hollow, resonating body with an incurved waist, arched top and back, and two F-shaped holes cut in the top, a neck terminating in a pegbox and scroll, a bridge, and four strings.
- plate Dimensions: 279 x 250 mm (11 x 9.8 in.)
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Cornelis Dusart, Dutch, (1660–1704) . The Violin Player, 1685. Etching on laid paper. Third state. plate : 279 x 250 mm (11 x 9.8 in.). DAC accession number 1942.D1.142. Gift of George W. Davison (BA Wesleyan 1892), 1942. Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (photo: R. Lee) .