Interior with a Company
Also titled Gezelschap in een interieur
Bartholomeus van Bassen (Antwerp, ca. –1652)
Esaias van de Velde (Amsterdam, 1587–1630)
c. 1622 - c. 1624
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 71 cm x width 101.2 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Van Bassen painted the interior, and his colleague Van de Velde the figures. The composition represents an elegant company in a grand, stylish residence with paintings on the walls, decorated cabinets, a monumental chimneypiece and an elaborate wooden coffered ceiling. The decorations were inspired by designs by the architect Hans Vredeman de Vries. This interior never actually existed – it is an idealized image.
