Merry company on a terrace

Steen, Jan (1626-1679)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1670
Height:
141.0 cm  (55 1/2 in.)
Width:
131.4 cm  (51 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 58.89]

Description

One man is playing a cittern and a second is playing flute and wearing a tall hat while a third is seated at the left laughing, with a group of twelve other men, women, children, and a dog.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Cittern [3106]
Transverse flute [4093]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

1508