Anthonie Palamedesz

Merry Company Dining and Making Music

Anthonie Palamedesz Musicerend en dinerend gezelschap
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Anthonie Palamedesz Musicerend en dinerend gezelschap
Anthonie Palamedesz Musicerend en dinerend gezelschap
Anthonie Palamedesz Musicerend en dinerend gezelschap

Anthonie Palamedesz
Merry Company Dining and Making Music

1632 On view in Room 16

A group of men and women are having a party, with music, food and drinks. They are all fashionably dressed – even the servant on the left filling the beer glasses. The elegant man in the middle is turning to face the viewer while exhaling his pipe smoke. The Delft painter Anthonie Palamedesz painted several of these elegant merry companies, depicting townspeople eating, dancing and playing music.

Technical details
Anthonie Palamedesz Musicerend en dinerend gezelschap

Anthonie Palamedesz
Merry Company Dining and Making Music

1632 On view in Room 16

Acquired with the support of the Rembrandt Association, 1900
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Details

General information
Artist Anthonie Palamedesz (Delft 1601 - 1673 Amsterdam)
Title Merry Company Dining and Making Music
Dated 1632
Object name painting
Inventory number 615
On view in Room 16
Material and technical details
Technique oil
Material panel
Dimensions 47.2 x 72.5 cm
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower left: A. palamedes. / 1632

Provenance

Jonkheer Mr Jan Karel Jacob de Jonge, The Hague, until 1880; by inheritance to his second wife, dowager Elisabeth Adriana de Jonge-de Kock, The Hague (on loan to the Mauritshuis, 1897-1899); given to her son, jonkheer Albert Hendrik Wendelin de Jonge; acquired with the support of the Rembrandt Association, 1900 (3,000 guilders)