Title
Easy company, by van Hemessen (1545, c.)
Creator
Hemessen, Jan Sanders van (c. 1500- c. 1566)
Date
1545, c.
Description
Dutch painting, genre painting or merry company.
Note the old woman in the foreground with the beer or wine mug.
Original title: Lockere Gesellschaft
Other title: Brothel Scene
Note the old woman in the foreground with the beer or wine mug.
Original title: Lockere Gesellschaft
Other title: Brothel Scene
Source
State Art Gallery in Karlsruhe, Alemania
https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/Jan-van-Hemessen/Lockere-Gesellschaft/F89E75D645149E3B2802E7B7FE79755C/
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201226144651/https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/Jan-van-Hemessen/Lockere-Gesellschaft/F89E75D645149E3B2802E7B7FE79755C/
Inventory number: 152
Found in Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen_002.jpg
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200626174022/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen_002.jpg
Also in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_art#/media/File:Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen_002.jpg
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200624232701/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_art
See article
Lotte C. van de Pol, "The Whore, the Bawd, and the Artist: The Reality and Imagery of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prostitution," JHNA 2:1-2 (2010), DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2010.2.1.3
https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/Jan-van-Hemessen/Lockere-Gesellschaft/F89E75D645149E3B2802E7B7FE79755C/
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201226144651/https://www.kunsthalle-karlsruhe.de/kunstwerke/Jan-van-Hemessen/Lockere-Gesellschaft/F89E75D645149E3B2802E7B7FE79755C/
Inventory number: 152
Found in Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen_002.jpg
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200626174022/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen_002.jpg
Also in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_art#/media/File:Jan_Sanders_van_Hemessen_002.jpg
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200624232701/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genre_art
See article
Lotte C. van de Pol, "The Whore, the Bawd, and the Artist: The Reality and Imagery of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Prostitution," JHNA 2:1-2 (2010), DOI: 10.5092/jhna.2010.2.1.3
Format
Color on wood.
Dimensions: 83 × 111 cm
Dimensions: 83 × 111 cm
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