A Party of Merrymakers, ca. 1635–38, Oil on wood, 14 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (37.5 x 49.5 cm), Paintings, Pieter Jansz. Quast (Dutch, Amsterdam (?) 1605/6–1647 Amsterdam), Viewers of the time would have taken in at a glance not only the off-key carousing but also signs—the fancy shoes, frizzy hair, open collar, and so on—that make the symbolic satyr redundant. Quast worked in the cosmopolitan milieus of Amsterdam and The Hague
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Party, Merrymakers, ca, 1635–38, Oil, wood, 14 3/4 x 19 1/2, 37.5 49.5 cm, Paintings, Pieter Jansz. Quast, Dutch, Amsterdam, 1605/6–1647, Viewers, time, glance, off-key carousing, signs— fancy shoes, frizzy hair, open collar, —, symbolic satyr, redundant, Quast worked, cosmopolitan milieus, Hague
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