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Source Description
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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Document identity
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23727
label
Merrymakers in an Inn
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obj
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drawing
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
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23727
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Merrymakers in an Inn
description
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.
provenance
Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1630-1639 (Baroque)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
paintings
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1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
45.2
height
67.2
dimensionsRaw
H: 17 13/16 x W: 26 7/16 in. (45.2 x 67.2 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on copper
creator_ids
5970
collection_ids
BAR
exhibition_ids
2674
2747
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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