Pieter Jacobs Codde
Merry Company
Artist
Pieter Jacobs Codde
Amsterdam 1599 – Amsterdam 1678
Title
Merry Company
Date
1631
Materials
Oil on wood
Dimensions
53.1 x 85.4 cm
Credits
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein, inv. 2014.69
Collection
Western Art
A group of men and women in expensive clothing converse and drink, enjoying each other’s company inside a tapestry-lined room. Commonly known as “merry companies” (gezelschapjes), interior scenes showing the leisure pursuits of the increasingly wealthy middle class became extremely popular in the Dutch Republic in the 1620s.
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