# The Painter's Studio [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MIERIS, Frans van, the Elder]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on panel, 60 x 47 cm ## Commentary 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 Mieris's painting depicting a black-garbed visitor who is not looking at the unfinished painting on the easel but a piece of sculpture standing on a covered table. The connoisseur had evidently come not just to admire the painter's work but also to examine a variety of intriguing artefacts of art and science, which are accordingly arranged in lavish display in most studio scenes. ## Related artworks - [A Meal of Oysters]() - [Boy Blowing Bubbles]() - [Brothel Scene]() - [Carousing Couple]() - [Duet]() - [Musical Company]() - [Oyster Eaters]() - [Pictura \(An Allegory of Painting\)]() - [Portrait of a Young Man]() - [The Cloth Shop]() - [The Lacemaker]() - [The Music Lesson]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()