Gabriël Metsu, 1659 - A Musical Party - fine art print

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Musical performance was a common pastime among the well-to-do and had strong associations with courtship in the Dutch Republic. Here, a richly dressed woman passes a songbook to the dandy behind her while maintaining a nonchalant grasp on the neck of her lute. Another beribboned gentleman tunes a viol, his sword cast off to the side, and a maid pauses in the doorway at the back with a tray of refreshments. For seventeenth-century viewers, symbolic elements such as the foot warmer would have indicated an atmosphere of indulgence and temptation.

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The piece of art A Musical Party was made by the male artist Gabriël Metsu. The original measures the size: 24 1/2 x 21 3/8 in (62,2 x 54,3 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the artist as the technique for the masterpiece. It is in the the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890 (license - public domain). The creditline of the artpiece is the following: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1890. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format with an aspect ratio of 1 : 1.2, which implies that the length is 20% shorter than the width.

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