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Merry Company on a Terrace
Nicolaas Verkolje (mentioned on object), Nicolaas Verkolje (mentioned on object), c. 1700 - c. 1720
‘The work of art depicting a merry company, some say the Prodigal Son, is best known as the pissing boy […].’ This is how the artists’ biographer Arnold Houbraken described Verkolje’s reproductive print after Jan Baptist Weenix. That Houbraken mentions the somewhat vulgar title of the painting is understandable. After all, the child aiming his pee at the dog’s muzzle steals the show here.
- Artwork typeprint
- Object numberRP-P-OB-17.589
- Dimensionsheight 251 mm x width 350 mm
- Physical characteristicsmezzotint, gedrukt in bruin