A Musical Party
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
A Musical Party, painted in 1659 by the Dutch genre painter Gabriël Metsu, depicts a fashionably dressed woman passing a songbook while holding a lute, a gentleman tuning a viol beside her, and a maid appearing in the doorway with refreshments — a scene of elegant courtship conducted, as was so often the case in Dutch genre painting, through the shared ritual of music. Metsu, active in Leiden and later Amsterdam, was among the finest of the "fijnschilders," painters prized for their exquisitely smooth, jewel-like finish.
Music-making scenes like this one carried a well-understood double meaning in Dutch art of the period: an image of refined leisure on the surface, and beneath it a coded language of romantic pursuit, where instruments, glances, and gestures all carried erotic and social subtext for contemporary viewers fluent in the genre's visual vocabulary.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Gabriël Metsu |
| Year | 1659 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 24 1/2 x 21 3/8 in. (62.2 x 54.3 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque (Dutch Golden Age) |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 30 × 40 cm (12″ × 16″) |
| Medium | 40 × 50 cm (16″ × 20″) |
| Large | 60 × 90 cm (24″ × 36″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
