# Art-lovers in a Painter's Studio [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CODDE, Pieter]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 38 x 49 cm ## Commentary Art-lovers in a Painter's Studio c. 1630 Oil on panel, 38 x 49 cm Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart The subject of this painting refers to the practice of art connoisseurs visiting artists in their studio. The object of such visits was not to buy a work from the artist but to discuss art with him and with like-minded devotees. This is the subject of Codde's painting depicting three elegantly-clad gentlemen who appear to be well-acquainted with this particular studio. ## Related artworks - [A Merry Company in an Interior]() - [Actors' Changing Room]() - [Elegant Company Making Music]() - [Gallant Company]() - [Interior with Musicians Seated around a Table \(detail\)]() - [Interior with Musicians Seated around a Table]() - [Lady Seated at Virginals]() - [Merry Company]() - [Musical Company]() - [Portrait of a Child]() - [The Dancing Lesson]() - [The Meagre Company]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()