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| Keywords: Simon de Vos - Merrymakers in an Inn - Walters 371741.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Simon de Vos This party of fashionably dressed young people is interrupted by intruders with masks and a lighted torch suggesting that these revels take place during Carnival Well-bred young ladies did not join parties in public inns; these smiling women are prostitutes Women forced by poverty into prostitution had to rent such garments as they themselves were rented The lap dog gnawing a bone adds a crude but amusing counterpoint to the apparent elegance of the scene between 1630 1639 Baroque oil on copper cm 45 2 67 2 accession number 37 1741 23727 Don Marcello Massarenti Collection Rome date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection 1902 Salute to Belgium Artful Dining The Exhibition The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1994 place of origin Antwerp Belgium Walters Art Museum license 2D Salute to Belgium Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Genre paintings by Simon de Vos Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Merry company paintings | ||||
