1550
oil
panel
From the collection of Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The bagpipe player and the merry woman is a 1550 oil by Jan Sanders van Hemessen, a Northern Renaissance work, held at Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
This painting shows a man and a woman in the foreground. The man is wearing a dark hat with a large feather tucked into it, and he's holding a bagpipe. The woman is wearing a white head covering and holding a green jug. She's looking at the man, who's looking back at her. The man's mouth is open, and he seems to be singing or playing the bagpipe. The woman looks like she's listening to him. The background of the painting is dark, which makes the two figures stand out. The artist who created this painting is Jan Sanders van Hemessen.
Jan Sanders van Hemessen (c. 1500 – c. 1566) was a leading Flemish Renaissance painter, belonging to the group of Italianizing Flemish painters called the Romanists, who were influenced by Italian Renaissance painting.…
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