# Distinguished Dinner Company in an Interior [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DELEN, Dirck van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 43 x 69 cm ## Commentary A distinctive group of paintings in Van Delen's oeuvre consists of imaginary palaces or elegant domestic interiors. These pictures are conceived like peepshows or perspective boxes: they open onto a view of opulent interior with staffage, in which skilfully applied rules of perspective, most spectacular in the ingeniously constructed coffered ceilings, play a dominant role. The present painting is a characteristic example of this type. ## Related artworks - [A Family beside the Tomb of Willem I in the Nieuwe Kerk, Delft]() - [An Interior with Ladies and Gentlemen Dining]() - [Architectural Capriccio with Jephthah and His Daughter]() - [Church Interior with the Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican]() - [Conversation outside a Castle]() - [Distinguished Dinner Company in an Interior \(detail\)]() - [Elegant Figures in a Loggia]() - [Figures Strolling under a Palace Loggia]() - [Imaginary Church Interior \(detail\)]() - [Imaginary Church Interior]() - [Interior of an Imaginary Church]() - [Interior Scene]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()