Recorder Player 17th century - Public domain portrait engraving

after a painting by Dirck van Baburen, painter, ca. 1595-1624 (artist notes)
Dutch (artist nationality)
painter, draughtsman and engraver (artist role)
Baburen, Dirck van, ca. 1595-1624 (original artist)
Recto: bottom center: (in Dutch) De fluijt gaet soet, tgeluijt is eel. / Maer heer hoe klinckt een out wyfs keel. / Theodorus Baburen . Pinxit [and, monogram] CD . Sculp ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil) Spaeth - Munich / Aug. 1930 / 35 Mks = $8.75 ; l. l.: (in pencil) C575/196 ; l. l.: (inside mat, a white stamp with a blue border with inked notation) Made in / Dutch ; l. l.: (inside mat, beneath this label are pencilled notes by a conservator, who has recorded what was written on an old backing of the print) 1722, LK 628, L … ew 35.-, ie Lleu 25 300, van Daden / (copied from old backing) Customs stamp "Made in Dutch" ; l. r.: (inside mat, in pencil) L · 251 (inscription)
Etching. (medium)
Fine condition. Trimmed to plate impression. (condition)
Jacob Spaeth, Kunst- und Antiquitäten- Handlung, Munich, 26 Aug. 1930. (provenance)
Recorder (instrument)
Dalen, Cornelis van, the elder, 1602-1665; Dalen, Cornelis van, the younger, 1638-1664 (related names)
17th century (century)
Works of art - - Single Players (miller category)

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.