EECKHOUT, Gerbrand van den
(b. 1621, Amsterdam, d. 1674, Amsterdam)

A Musical Party

c. 1652
Oil on canvas, 51 x 65 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This painting showing five stylish young people socializing on a garden terrace, is typical of Van den Eeckhout in the early 1650s. Unfortunately, it is in a very poor state of preservation.