Overview: Merry company is the term in art history for a painting, usually from the 17th century, showing a small group of people enjoying themselves, usually seated with drinks, and often music-making. These scenes ...

Overview: The Lute Player is a composition by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio. It exists in two versions, one in the Wildenstein Collection and another in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. A third from ...

Overview: Bleaching on the Lawn is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1882–83 by the German painter Max Liebermann. It depicts a scene that takes place in a Dutch cottage garden in Zweeloo, in the province of ...

Overview: Women Plucking Geese is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1872 by German painter Max Liebermann. It is his first painting of large dimensions and measures 119.5 by 170.5 cm. It is held in the Alte ...

Overview: Seated Girl in Peasant Costume is an oil on panel painting by Dutch artist Gerard ter Borch, created c. 1650. It is held in the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam.

Overview: The Woman with Dropsy or The Dropsical Woman is an oil on canvas painting by Dutch artist Gerrit Dou, created c. 1663. It shows a woman suffering from edema and is considered as one of Dou's masterpieces ...

Overview: Haymaking (French - Les foins) or Resting in the Fields is an 1877 painting by Jules Bastien-Lepage. First exhibited at the 1878 Paris Salon, it was acquired by the Musée du Luxembourg in 1885 at the ...

Overview: Asalto de ladrones is an oil painting made by Francisco de Goya between 1793 and 1794. It is a private collection owned by Juan Abelló.

Overview: Merry Company is a 1622 oil on canvas painting by the Dutch artist Gerard van Honthorst. Set in a tavern, it is also known as The Prodigal Son, The Return or Celebratory Party. It is now in the Alte P ...

Overview: A Cabinet of Curiosities (Dutch - Een kunstkamer) is a 1619 oil on panel painting of a cabinet of curiosities by the Flemish painter Frans Francken II. It is now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp ...

Overview: Merry Company is a c.1620-1622 painting by the Dutch artist Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. It belongs to the merry company sub-genre of the genre painting.

Overview: Soo voer gesongen, soo na gepepen is a c.1668–1670 oil-on-canvas painting (H 133.7 cm × W 162.5 cm) by Dutch artist Jan Steen, that is currently featured in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague. The painting ...

Overview: The Kings' Tart or The Twelfth Night Cake is a 1774 genre painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, showing the French tart then traditionally baked for Epiphany to celebrate the arrival of the Three Kings. Since ...

Overview: The Kitchen Maid is a 1738 painting by Jean Simeon Chardin. The painting features a young kitchen maid in a Hollandish kitchen, taking a break from her work. The work was popular, and Chardin had made ...

Overview: The Lace-Maker (c. 1660s) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Gabriël Metsu. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.

Overview: Ida Reading a Letter is an 1899 painting by Vilhelm Hammershøi. It is an example of a work inspired by Dutch Golden Age painting and is currently in a private collection.

Overview: The Vegetable Market in Amsterdam (c.1660–61) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Gabriël Metsu, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Louvre ...