# Flirting Couples [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TOORENVLIET, Jacob]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 108 x 84 cm ## Commentary Jacob Toorenvliet was a genre painter, who occasionally also painted portraits and history subjects. He painted this canvas in his Leiden years, when his production became more anecdotal, the scenes populated with more figures and the poses of the various characters more humorous. Toorenvliet loved representing flirting people and he regularly painted market scenes. In the painting he successfully managed to combine both in a composition under the theatrical arch of an Italianate farmhouse. ## Related artworks - [A Fish Seller]() - [A Man Courting a Woman Selling Game]() - [A Vegetable Seller]() - [Allegory of the Arts]() - [An Allegory on Harmony]() - [An Elegant Company Drinking Tea]() - [Banquet in the Open Air]() - [Fish Market]() - [Market Scene]() - [Music Lesson]() - [Two Oriental Merchants Conversing]() - [Young Lady and a Fishseller]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()