drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5214.255
- Description
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A party merry-making at a table; three couples standing round a table with a serving woman standing at left, one man in the foreground leaning back on the bench against a woman, his right leg raised on the bench and holding up a glass; formerly in the 1637 album containing 279 miscellaneous drawings
Pen and brown ink, with grey-brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on grey paper
- Production date
- 1605-1656
- Dimensions
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Height: 184 millimetres
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Width: 270 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- A copy after the study in the Albertina, Vienna (inv.no.8437) for Honthorst's painting of 1622, 'Merry Company' in Munich; see Judson and Ekkart 1999, cat.nos.D55 and 283.
Literature: J. Judson and R. Ekkart, 'Gerrit van Honthorst 1592-1656', Ghent, 1999, under cat.no.D55.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5214.255
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: T,10.255
