Pieter Codde

Merry Company with Masked Dancers

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Pieter Codde
Merry Company with Masked Dancers

On view in Room 13

Scenes of elegant, revelling youngsters – ‘merry companies’ – were very popular at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The Amsterdam artist Pieter Codde is one of the painters who specialised in this genre.

In this merry company, people are eating, drinking and making music. In the middle of the room, a woman in a fashionable black dress is dancing with a man wearing a Venetian mask and a fool’s costume. His two companions on the left are masked as well.

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Pieter Codde
Merry Company with Masked Dancers

On view in Room 13

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General information
Pieter Codde (Amsterdam 1599 - 1678 Amsterdam)
Merry Company with Masked Dancers
painting
392
Room 13
Material and technical details
oil
panel
50 x 76.5 cm
Inscriptions
lower right, on a book: PCodde / A.° 1636
PC in ligature

Provenance

Alexander Scharf, Vienna; his sale, Paris, 18 March 1876 (Lugt 36288), no. 3 (2,000 francs); purchased, 1876