The Sinfonia (Family Portrait), 1671

  • Michiel van Musscher, Dutch, 1645-1705

Oil on canvas

  • Unframed: 55 1/4 × 52 inches (140.3 × 132.1 cm)
  • 62 × 58 7/8 × 2 1/2 inches (157.5 × 149.5 × 6.4 cm)

Gift of David B. Moreing

64.263

On View

  • Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South

Department

European Painting

Signed and dated, lower left on pillar: M v Musscher Pinxit A:º1671

1895-May 25, 1907, (Galerie Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, France) lot 137, [sold for 5650 francs]

1915, (Blakeslee Galleries, New York, New York, USA)

April 21, 1915, sold by (American Art Association, New York, New York, USA) auction Blakeslee Galleries, lot 81

purchased by Joseph Breck on behalf of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) [for $375]

until 1956, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) inv. 15.21

1956-1957, purchased by (Victor Spark, New York, New York, USA)

Mr. David B. Moreing (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1964-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Illustrated Catalogue of the Second 100 Paintings by Old Masters. Sales cat., Charles Sedelmeyer Gallery. Paris, 1895, p. 28, no. 24 (ill.). Minneapolis Institute of Arts Bulletin 4, no. 8 (1915): pp. 77-79 (ill.). Minneapolis Institute of Arts Handbook. Minneapolis, 1917, p. 62 (ill.). Minneapolis Institute of Art Handbook. Minneapolis,1926, p. 35 (ill.). Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 9, 28, 29 (ill.). Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 140-141.

Michiel van Musscher, The Sinfonia (Family Portrait), 1671, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of David B. Moreing, 64.263.