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Hendrik van der Burch, Dutch
(1627-after 1699), A
Musical Party, oil on canvas, The Val A. Browning Collection of
European Masterworks, Permanent Collection of the Utah Museum of Fine Arts,
Acc. 1994.017.013
"Hendrik van der Burch shared an interest
with his contemporaries in describing the everyday social life of
Holland, including musical gatherings. Music was a charming
diversion for seventeenth-century Dutch families, and was a
standard fixture at weddings, feasts, in taverns and in the home.
In A Musical Party, the woman seated in the center of the
room raises her hand to pause the action and looks toward the
viewer as if she and her companions had just been interrupted by
someone entering the room. The man to her right also looks toward
the viewer as he raises a glass to his lips. The atmosphere among
the figures is one of casual camaraderie, although the image
itself was created with the utmost attention to detail. Like his
peers, Pieter de Hooch and Jan Vermeer, Van der Burch created
interior spaces with mathematical precision. He was also
interested in complex and refined lighting effects, and uses two
sources of light in this painting - the window on the left and the
open door in the background. Van der Burch's painstaking realism
in combination with his keen observation of people successfully
displayed his own skill at the same time it responded to the
tastes of an increasingly wealthy Protestant mercantile class in
the Netherlands."
Essay written by Dr. Will South (Utah University)
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