Brothel Scene (A Merry Company at Table), by Pot (1630)

Brothel Scene (A Merry Company at Table), by Pot (1630)

Pot, Hendrik Gerritsz (c. 1580-1657)

1630

A room with a table with a red tablecloth. On the left, a young woman near a man and next to her an old woman who seems to act like a procuress.

National Gallery, London, England.
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hendrick-pot-a-merry-company-at-table

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160808101314/https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/hendrick-pot-a-merry-company-at-table

Inventory number: NG1278

Found in "The Whore, the Bawd, and the Artist: The Reality and Imagery of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prostitution" by Lotte C. van der Pol in Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art Vol. 2.1-2. DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2010.2.1.3 www.jhna.org. June 15, 2016. (Fig 15).
http://www.jhna.org/index.php/past-issues/volume-2-issue-1-2/116-the-whore-the-bawd-and-the-artist

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200301153414/https://jhna.org/articles/whore-bawd-artist-reality-imagery-seventeenth-century-dutch-prostitution/

Oil on oak.
Dimensions: 32.3 × 49.6 cm