Female Musicians / Three ladies playing music, Master of the Female Half-Lengths

Three female musicians playing the poem 'jouissance vous donneray' by clément marot, music by claudin de sermisy, close to the version in the harrach collection. Like in the lacma version a cap for the flute case is missing, the singer wears a gold chain different from the other paintings; grotesque below; the eyes look vivid, in the concert series only in this versions one lady wears a different headgear; the singer's sheet of music and text differs from the version in the harrach collection without any hints to sermisy and markt; the flautist does not play from a complete cantus (harrach version but from a complete tenor (different from leningrad and lacma version; this version has the same text by markt as the harsch version. Object Type: painting. Date: Probably second quarter of 16th century Possibly circa 1530. Dimensions: height: 47 cm (18.5 in); width: 37 cm (14.5 in). Medium: oil on panel. Collection: Private collection. Master of the female Half-Length - three ladies playing music - Brazil