#cittern

[classic-art-favourites]

Woman Playing the Cittern by Jan Steen, 1662.

[heracliteanfire]

Cittern. Joachim Tielke, Hamburg, ca. 1685

(via The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

[lutes-of-the-world]

Cittern, Urbino school, probably 16th century, with soundboard from the 18th century, auctioned at Christie's

[portrait-paintings]

Anne Hoare, Mrs Richard Hoare (1737-1759) Playing a Cittern

Artist: After Francis Cotes, Samuel Woodforde, R.A. (British, 1763 - 1817)

Date: 1757 (after) - 1817

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, United Kingdom

Description

Anne Hoare, Mrs Richard Hoare (1737-1759) playing a Cittern (after Francis Cotes) by Samuel Woodforde, RA (Ansford 1763 - Ferrara 1817), after 1757. A half-length portrait of a seated woman, looking to the left with a red curtain behind her, playing a cittern. The sitter was the daughter of Henry Hoare II and married her cousin Sir Richard Hoare, 1st Bt who was only created a baronet after her death in 1759. She wears a satin dress embroidered with flowers and elaborately decorated with lace and lace collar.The painting is a copy of the pastel by Francis Cotes (London 1726 - London 1770) in Stourhead House the companion picture of which is dated 1757, a year after her marriage and two years before her death.

[daily-instruments]

Daily Instrument — Cittern

The cittern is a lute from the Renaissance Era based on the Medieval citole. It has a pear shaped wooden body and a metal fretted neck. The instrument has four to six pairs of metal strings that are played with a plectrum and strung over a bridge. The cittern also has tenor and bass variants.

[chordophoneoftheday]

[hotpinkmurex]

The Music Lession, Johannes Vermeer.

For anyone reading my current Six of Crows Wesper fic, this is a muselar. Historical references to "virginals" can mean any stringed keyboard instrument (e.g., muselars, harpsichords and spinets) and were the predecessors of the pianoforte.

I could have picked "clavichord" to match the vaugely northern European vibe of Kerch but I did not. As is my right.

Also, listen to this guy play.

And below (on the right) is a cittern which sounds like this. Like a lute for the common people but most importantly, with metal strings.

The Duet, Cornelis Saftleven.

[beaartdesign]

Miniature instruments

Unique Collection of miniature model instruments. Each miniature Is Unique fully hand made by luthier as a construction model.