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More than a dozen light-skinned men, women, and children eat, drink, talk, and make music around a dancing couple under an arbor in this horizontal painting. Most of the people are dressed in muted tones of green, gray, and black. The patio-like space is enclosed by a railing along the back and a half wall to our right. Sage-green vines and leaves covering the roof-like trellis hang down. Ten men and women sit or stand closely around a long table along the left, next to the exterior wall of a red brick building. A woman sitting in a wooden chair at the end of the table closest to us wears a…

The Dancing Couple

Jan Steen (Dutch, 1625/1626 - 1679)

1663 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Widener Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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