A Music Party

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A violinist plays while a couple in the background peruse some papers, perhaps a music score. The curvaceous cello in the foreground and bed-curtains pulled slightly apart lend a subtle erotic note to the scene. This is considered a good example from the Leiden School of 'fine' painters, who specialised in small-scale scenes of everyday life executed with exceptional skill, refinement and great attention to detail. The traditional attribution to Frans van Mieris the elder has been questioned, and instead it is thought it was probably painted by another artist of the Leiden School.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

A Music Party

Date

c.1675

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 34.3 x W 28.9 cm

Accession number

K2419

Acquisition method

gift from the Art Fund from the bequest of Ernest E. Cook of Bath, 1955

Work type

Painting

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