Company in a Garden, by Barend Graat, 1661
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Company in a Garden

Also titled Een gezelschap in een tuin

Barend Graat (Amsterdam, 1628–1709)

1661

Medium
canvas, oil paint (paint)
Classification
painting
Dimensions
height 85 cm x width 75.5 cm
Museum
Rijksmuseum
Rights
Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the Rijksmuseum

About this work

An elegant young couple set foot in the garden of a grand country house. The stiffly corseted woman is draped in costly jewels, and the man too is sumptuously attired; he sports a fashionable garter on his right leg. The identity of this amorous pair holding hands is not known.