Sujet

Merrymakers in an Inn, 1630-1639. Creator: Simon de Vos.

Légende

Merrymakers in an Inn, 1630-1639. This party of fashionably dressed young people is interrupted by intruders with masks and a lighted torch suggesting that these revels take place during Carnival. Well-bred young ladies did not join parties in public inns; these smiling women are prostitutes.Women forced by poverty into prostitution had to rent such garments, as they themselves were rented. The lap dog gnawing a bone adds a crude, realistic and amusing counterpoint to the apparent elegance of the scene.In his own time the artist was known especially for small cabinet paintings of scenes of merriment. The style of execution seen here is somewhat less painterly than one might expect and it is possible that it is a product of his workshop.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM23B16_085

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Droits gérés

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46,7Mo (2,3Mo) / 42,0cm x 27,9cm / 4960 x 3292 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe animal building woman women woman people man interior group looking man men fashion arts painting night pub dog dogs art guy Carnival costume watching museum public house Flanders Belgium color courtship courting dress door doors party Baroque inn century holding hands inside flirting open door fashionable concept time of day APPAREL prostitute posture flirtation tavern prostitution 17th century oil Painting Colour Flemish intruder gnawing Indoors merrymaking merrymaker seventeenth century lap dog oil on copper TGN portrait 1630s Baroque Era Oil on copper Walters Art Museum Oil on metal Heritage Art clothing & dress fashion & clothing Simon de Vos Vos Simon de