# Merry Company on a Terrace [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STEEN, Jan]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 141 x 131 cm ## Commentary Merry Company on a Terrace c. 1670 Oil on canvas, 141 x 131 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This late painting by Jan Steen is eclectic both in subject and style. The painter blends several themes \(the dissolute household, the Garden of Love, child rearing\) into an original composition, and he combines the manners of Gerard Terborch and the Flemish Jacob Jordaens. ## Related artworks - [A Burgher of Delft and His Daughter]() - [A Merry Party \(detail\)]() - [A Merry Party \(detail\)]() - [A Merry Party]() - [Argument over a Card Game]() - [Arrival of a Visitor]() - ['As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young' \(detail\)]() - ['As the Old Sing, So Pipe the Young']() - [Baptism \("So de oude songen, so pypen de jongen"\)]() - [Before an Inn]() - [Celebrating the Birth]() - [Christ among the Doctors]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()