Musical instruments

Until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the idlest young people played keyboard instruments as an entertainment.

Até aos séculos XVIII e XIX os jovens mais ociosos entretinham-se a tocar instrumentos de teclas.

Margaret Dicksee Sheridan (1858-1903)-‘at the linleys’-1899

Pieter Lisaert (1595-ca 1630)-‘ten Virgins’-oil on panel     Private collection

Jan Joseph Horemans the Younger (1714-1792)-‘a new song’-oil on panel-ca 1760     Amsterdam-Rijksmuseum

Philippe Mercier (ca 1689-1760)-‘the Sense of Hearing’-oil on canvas-ca 1747     New Haven-Yale Center for British Art

Eduardo Léon Garrido (1856-1949)-‘the dance performance’-oil on panel     Private collection