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Description: | Signed: yes Description: An interior with sixteen figures. At the left, viewed from the side, is a fireplace with brass firedogs and beside it a cabinet with gold and glass drinking vessels laid out on it. A boy pours wine into a glass from a decanter and a brown and white dog lies beside the fire in the foreground. The company are arranged around a table, the centrepiece of which is a swan pie. The figures are divided into two groups; at the left are five people, including a seated lady, who has her back to us, and a man who doffs his hat to another woman. The larger group at the right of the composition comprises a man in plum-coloured doublet playing the bass-viol and facing him, a lutenist, who also appears to be singing in the direction of the seated lady on his right, who is strikingly dressed in blue and yellow and provides the chief focus of the scene. On the table to her right is an open music score and a bow. Leaning against the table is another lute. Behind them a man playing the violin bends in flirtation over a blond-haired woman who is reading and other figures engage in conversation. The furniture in the room includes a covered four-poster bed, a 'kast' on top of which is an equestrian statuette and, on the walls, two portraits in octagonal frames flanking a large rectangular landscape. The paintings are too badly rubbed to be identifiable, but the equestrian statuette on the 'kast' has been recognised by Peter Sutton (Philadelphia Museum of Art) as being based on Hendrick Goltzius's (1558-1617) engraving of Marcus Curtius [1586] from the 'Roman Heroes' series. The drinking vessels ceremoniously laid out on the sideboard may imply that the scene represents a wedding reception. The work employs many of the motifs and figural arrangements that are commonly found in Palamedes's work, such as the boy pouring wine and the musician seen from behind. | Subjects: | everyday life; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Palamedesz., Anthonie (Dutch painter, 1601-1673) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8529... | Go to resource |
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