Merry Company on a Terrace
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Merry Company on a Terrace” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- Source
- The museum
About the work
‘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.
Rijksmuseum
Details
- Accession number
- RP-P-OB-17.589
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
