Jan Miense Molenaer荷兰, 1610–1668Festive Scene
关于这幅画
Festive Scene conjures chimney smoke, bleating pipes, and boozy sweat. Revelers dance and drink in a dark tavern, where a spotted dog snoozes in spite of the racket. This is one of many humorous tavern interiors painted by the Dutch master Jan Miense Molenaer. (Westermann, “Jan Miense Molenaer in the Comic Mode,” in Weller, Jan Miense Molenaer: Painter of the Dutch Golden Age, 2002). The work was part of the collection of Ralph Cross Johnson, a Harvard-educated lawyer who was described at the time of his death as “One of the greatest patrons of art in the country” (The Washington Post, July 10, 1923). Johnson gave the Smithsonian American Art Museum (then the National Collection of Fine Arts) forty-one old-master paintings, which filled an entire gallery of the Museum. Seventeenth-century Dutch paintings were all the rage among wealthy Americans like Johnson, who amassed European art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, hoping that their collections would one day form the core of America’s national museums.
史密森尼美國藝術博物館
作品信息
- 馆藏编号
- 1956.11.36
与此同时，在Jan Miense Molenaer的生活中
完整生平1637–1648 · 工作地
Amsterdam
1648–1649 · 工作地
Heemstede
1649–1655 · 工作地
Haarlem
