Hurdy-Gurdy Player
Luxury and Passion: Inventing French Porcelain, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, August 13 2022–August 12 2024, no cat.
This figure represents a rustic young woman who made her living playing the hurdy-gurdy, a hand-cranked wind instrument. It was part of a larger series representing the vendors and musicians who animated the streets of Paris.
Michiel Onnes (1878-1972), Château de Nijenrode, Breukelen, The Netherlands, by July 4, 1933;
Purchased at his sale, Collection Onnes de Nijenrode du Chateau de Nijenrode, Frederik Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, July 4-7, 1933, lot 409, by Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, 1933, as Un guitariste;
Purchased from Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.