# A Musical Party [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [METSU, Gabriel]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 62 x 54 cm ## Commentary This painting represents the front rooms of a fine town house with several figures which recall earlier paintings by Frans van Mieris the Elder, for example, the figure of the seated man is derived from the one in the foreground of Van Mieris's <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/mieris/frans/brothel.html'\)" href="/html/m/mieris/frans/brothel.html">Brothel Scene,</a> the arrangement of objects in the foreground recalls motifs in <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/mieris/frans/studio.html'\)" href="/html/m/mieris/frans/studio.html">The Painter's Studio.</a> The subject of elegant musical gatherings flourished during the 1650s, for example in the work of the Amsterdam painters <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/e/eeckhout/terrace.html'\)" href="/html/e/eeckhout/terrace.html">Gerbrand van den Eeckhout</a> and <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/l/loo/jacob/concert.html'\)" href="/html/l/loo/jacob/concert.html">Jacob van Loo.</a> ## Related artworks - [A Woman Seated at a Table and a Man Tuning a Violin]() - [A Young Woman Composing Music]() - [Breakfast]() - [Dead Cock]() - [Lady Seated in a Window]() - [Man and Woman Sitting at the Virginal]() - [Man Writing a Letter]() - [Portrait of Jan Jacobsz. Hinlopen and His Family]() - [Portrait of the Artist with His Wife Isabella de Wolff in a Tavern]() - [Soldier Paying a Visit to a Young Lady]() - [Tavern Scene]() - [The Apothecary \(The Chemist\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()