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Merrymakers in an Inn (

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Artist



Description	Flemish painter and drawer
Date of birth/death	20 October 1603	15 October 1676
Location of birth/death	Antwerp	Antwerp
Work period	from 1620 until 1676 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1620-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1676-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Antwerp (1620-1676), Italy
Authority file	: Q775008 VIAF: 64861428 ISNI: 0000000066350354 ULAN: 500007313 WGA: v/vos_s GND: 121364976

Title

Merrymakers in an Inn

Description

English: This party of fashionably dressed young people is interrupted by intruders with masks and a lighted torch suggesting that these revels take place during Carnival. Well-bred young ladies did not join parties in public inns; these smiling women are prostitutes. Women forced by poverty into prostitution had to rent such garments, as they themselves were rented. The lap dog gnawing a bone adds a crude but amusing counterpoint to the apparent elegance of the scene.

Date

between 1630 and 1639 (Baroque)

Medium

oil on copper

Dimensions

height: 45.2 cm (17.7 in); width: 67.2 cm (26.4 in)

Collection

Walters Art Museum

	Native name	Walters Art Museum
	Location	Baltimore, United States of America
	Coordinates	39° 17′ 47.13″ N, 76° 36′ 59.4″ W
	Established	1934
	Website	thewalters.org
	Authority file	: Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat

Accession number

37.1741

Place of creation

Antwerp, Belgium

Object history

Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
1902: purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore
1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters

Exhibition history

Salute to Belgium, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1980
Artful Dining: The Exhibition. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1994.

Credit line

Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902

Source

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