--- Matthew Szostak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >... and it > >seems to be tied down with some leather, or something (nope, that's a shadow). > > Hey Roy- > > Don't get yourself in trouble again, for goodness sakes!!! What's this "again" business, More like ..."Still" > > I see the square buckle "beneath" the hurdy-gurdy." What I see is > what > looks like the round end of the axle sticking out right where you'd > expect > to see the axle sticking out, a "finger's-width" below the soundboard > - it > looks like it has a square socket about 1 cm across (roughly, using > the > scale of the painting). I see the "socket" I just can't make a square out of it. > > But it's hard to see any kind of detail looking at the link in > question. How big is the original painting? I seem to remember this as 20-24 inches across. But then I forgot about the knife, so.. i'd ask Emily, but as mentioned, she's not speaking to me (again/still). I did notice on my researches that's it's supposed to belong to The Getty in Malibu, CA, so maybe one of our friends or colleagues, could stop in while they are in the neighborhood? Anyway as I spent a good deal of today looking at the ground with a weed-eater, I didn't get over to the Kimball (hoping to get a look at some big photos or some kind of archive) so I pretended I was going to print that picture off the web until I got chance to Adobe Preview and went at it with the zoom tool. I am confuseder than ever, except the fiddler is holding bow, by the frog. Given that the bow is way over there and the only fiddle in sight is nowhere near it...I'm pretty sure he's not playing but might be poking somebody or lifting a purse... The old woman on yr left: at first she appears to have her hands clasped but on closer inspection appears to be holding a tiny Guiness. Even closer inspection seems to reveal a wedge of bacon in it. which make the same sense as having a wedge of lime in Mexican or Belgian beer....maybe...I guess. If it was a wedge of potato it might also be Belgian beer. That still doesn't explain the strings of bologna wrappers lying over her hand.... But I digress I also looked at the other de la Tour paintings of the Hurdy Gurdy Player and AFAICT the crank itself is kinda C-shaped, but not completely. and then there's this one: http://jacques.grandchamp.free.fr/Musicora/pages/lmr02.htm which you'd think would have all of the answers, but as you will observe the salient shot (third down) has a black drape over the interesting bits, which reminds me of "dirty" pictures from the 50's. So much for gurdyporn. Roy
