• 1: In the Studio, Michiel Sweerts (1624-64) (Missing!)
  • 2: Dürer 1525
  • 3: "Musical Instruments", Evaristo Baschenis (1617-77)
  • 4: "Musical Instruments", Evaristo Baschenis (1617-77)
  • George Clifford,3rd Earl of Cumberland, Nicholas Hilliard, c 1590, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
  • 5: Lady Isabella Rich (-Thynne), Marquess of Bath, Courtauld Institute
  • 6: Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Cumberland, 1646, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria
  • 7: Lady Mary Wroth + Archlute, Penshurst place,Kent (permission of Viscount de L'isle)

    Symbolic genre portraits

  • 8: "Constantin Huygens and his clerk, 1627, Thomas de Keyser (1596-1667)
  • 9: "Ambassadors", Holbein
  • 10: "Tête-á-tête: Lady Lute player and Cavalier" Gabriel Metsu
  • 11: "Woman tuning a lute", Jan Vermeer (1632-75)
  • 12: "Cittern Player", Gabriel Metsu (1629-67)
  • 13: "Peasants makeing music at an inn", David Temiers
  • 14: "The Procuress". Honthorst, 1625
  • 15: "Procuress", Dirick van Baburen
  • 16: "Procuress", Vermeer, 1656
  • 17: "Jan Steen"
  • 18: "Music Party", Gabriel Metsu
  • 19: "The Lute Player", Jan Steeen (1625-79)
  • 20: "Brothel Scene", 1658, Van Mieris the Elder
  • 21: "Young woman playing harpsichord", Jan Steen (1626-79)
  • 22: "Supper Party", 1620, Honthorst
  • 23: Steen, c1670
  • 24: "The Family Concert", 1666, Jan Steen
  • 25: William Buytensech, c 1617-20
  • 26: "Mary Magdalen", Anon (1500-25)
  • 27: "Woman playing a lute", Gerard Terborch
  • 28: "Lute Player", Caravaggio (1573-1610)
  • 29: "The Musicians", 1594-5 Caravaggio
  • 30: "Concert in the Country", c 1510, Giorgione (+ Titian?) (1475-1510)
  • 31: "Concert" 1624, Gerrit van Honthorst (1590-1656)

    Love scenes and duets (?brothel scenes)

  • 32: "Man playing a lute", Hendrik Martensz Sorgh (1611-70)
  • 33: "The love letter", Jan Vermeer (1632-75)
  • 34: "Music Lesson" Vermeer 1660-61 (cupid in background)
  • 35: Vermeer, c1658-60
  • 36: "Musical Company", Gabriel Metsu (1629-67)
  • 37: "Venus and the lute player", Titian, c 1488-576
  • 38:
  • 39: "Musicians" Theodor Romborts1597-1637
  • 40: "A musical Party" Caspar Netscher 1635-84
  • 41: "Young Man and Woman making Music", Jan Molenaur
  • 42: "The Duet", Jan Molenaer
  • 43: "Music Party", 1675, Gerard Terborch
  • 44: "Woman making music with two men", Gerard erborch, 1617-81
  • 45: "The Music Lesson", Gerard Terborch 1617-81
  • 46: "The lute Player", 1667, Gerard Terborch
  • 47: "Man playing a lute", Hendrik Terbrugghen, 1588-1620
  • 48: "The Merry Lute Player", Frans Hals
  • 49: "Buffoon playing a lute", c 1621, Frans Hals 1582-1666
  • 50: "Woman playing the Cittern", Jan Steen 1626-79
  • 51: "Love Theme - Allegory of Virtuous and Vicious Love" cd 1592, Isaac Oliver (Private Collection)
  • 51a: "The life of Man", Steen
  • 52: "The Five Wise and Foolish Virgins", Voost Coornelisz, location unknown
  • 53: "Harmony and Marriage", 1652 Theodor van Thulden (1601-69)
  • 54: "The Four Ages of Man", Valentin, Moise (c 1591/4-1632)
  • 55: "Ages of Womankind (half), Hans Baldung Grien: Prado, madrid
  • 56: Buytewech, c 1615
  • 57: "Lady World (deceit and manipulation) of the physical world, Adrianus Poirters, c 1670
  • 58: "Allegory of Vanity", G. B. Castiglione (c 1610-65)
  • 59: "Ship of Fools", Bosch
  • 60: "The Five Senses", Ludovicus Finson, 1737
  • 61: "The Five Senses", Theodor Rombouts, 1597-1637
  • 62: "The Five Senses", Jan Saendam, 1565-1607
  • 63: "Allegory of the Sense of Hearing", Jan Brueghel 1586-1625
  • 64: "Musica süess Meledey", Hans Burgkmair, from Triumpheng Maximilians, 1516-10
  • 65: "April with triumph of Venus", Francesco del Cossa
  • 66: "allegoria della scienza", Giovanni Serodine, c 1630
  • 67: "Interior with Music-Maker", Gabriel Metsu (1629-67)
  • 68: "The Music Party", Pieter de Hooch, 1629-84
  • 69: "A Musical Party", Pieter de Hosch, 1629-84
  • 70: "A Musical Party", Pieter de Hosch, 1629-84
  • 71: "Coutiers of Queen Elizabeth", Marcus Gheeraerts (elder), c 1600
  • 72: "Family Portrait", c 1650, Jan Molenaer, c 1610-1668
  • 73:
  • 74: "A Concert", Lorenzo Costa, 1459-1535
  • 75: "Musical Society", c 1635, Abraham Bosse
  • 76: "Music Making", Harineman
  • 77: "Ladies Concert in Open Air", Jacopo Tintoretto, 1518-94
  • 78: "The Concert", Hendrik TerBriggen, 1588-1629
  • 79: "The Nativity", Piero della Francesca, 1439-1492
  • 80: Jan Vermeer, 1632-75
  • 81: Sofonista Anguissola, 1651
  • 82: "Lady at the Clavichord", Gerard Dou 1613,75
  • 83: Godaert Kamper, 1614-79
  • 84: Gabriel Metsu, 1629-67
  • 85: "Lady at the Virginals", Gabriel Metsu, 1629-67
  • 86: Jan Vermeer, 1632-75
  • 87: "The Concert", Jan Vermeer, 1632-75
  • 88: Jan Vermeer, 1632-75 (with Procuressin background)
  • 89:
  • 91: "House Music of the Marquis Creismare", Louis Carrogis Carmontelle, 1717-1806
  • 92: Klimt 1907-8
  • 93: "Lady with a Lute", T.W. Dewing 1851-1938, 1886 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  • 94: "The Music Lesson", François Boucher, 1070-70
  • 95: 2nd Sch. Fontaiulden c 1594
  • 96: "The Governess", Rebecca Solomon, 1854
  • 97: F. C. Heim, 1824
  • 98: Elisabeth Vigeel(-Lebrun) 1755-1842
  • 99: "The Scale of Love", Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1684-1721
  • 100: "The Awakening of Love", H. G. Schmalz, 1857-1935
  • 101: "Nameless and Friendless", Emily Mary Osborn, 1857
  • 102: "A Family of Musicians", Philippe Mercier, 1689-1760
  • 103: "Frederick, Prince of Wales, etc.", Philippe Mercier, 1689-1760
  • 104: "Rural Concert", Jean Baptiste Pater, 1695-1736
  • 105: "On the Balcony", Eugene de Blaas
  • 106: "The Corsair's Return", Ford Maddox Brown, 1821-93
  • 107: Goya, 1810-15
  • 108: "Odalisque with a Slave", Ingres, 1842
  • 109: Monet, 1867
  • 110: "In the GOlden Days (detail)", J. M. Strudwick , 1849-1937