Musical Company in an Interior

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This well-preserved painting betrays the influences of Frans van Mieris (and other Leiden 'fijnschielders') and Gerard Terborch in the costumes of the foreground protagonists as well as their postures. Moreover, the elongated figures are placed within an evenly lit room whose spatial disposition is reminiscent of Pieter de Hooch's interiors.

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About the Artist

Jacob Ochtervelt

1634 – 1682

Ochtervelt was a Dutch genre painter active mainly in Rotterdam, but from 1674 he lived in Amsterdam. He was influenced by Pieter de Hooch and through him by Vermeer. Apart from a few portraits and some early hunting party and "merry company" scenes, his paintings are almost all elegant upper-class interiors, in which he showed off a skill in painting silks and satins to rival that of Terborch. His figures are extremely refined, but there is often a sexual element in his painting.

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