CODDE, Pieter
(b. 1599, Amsterdam, d. 1678, Amsterdam)

Merry Company

1633
Oil on wood, 49 x 77 cm
Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

The figures in this conversation piece manifest two types of love: family love embodied by the couple in black at right, and the love for pleasure personified by the dancers, musicians and singers.




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