Talk:Merry company

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Did you know... that art historians often find it difficult to judge whether 17th-century merry company paintings (example illustrated) show scenes of prostitution?

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Congratulations[edit]

....on an interesting DYK!

Comment:

The image of a painting by Jacob Ochtervelt does not appear to be the one mentioned in the text. My Impression from the text is that there are no females present in that painting, only painted portraits. The inclusion of an image, adjacent to that text, by the same artist , is confusing.
The image itself is interesting. The caption could be expanded to indicate that it is not the image referred to. And also make passing reference to whatever is going on between the man and woman in the background.

Amandajm (talk) 00:21, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! It is the same image, which has a full page illustration in Franits. I agree Franits' "an elegant gathering of well-heeled youths..." suggests men only. Ok, fudged. I cut his full description. Johnbod (talk) 03:00, 2 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Transliteration problem[edit]

Apart Kolfin, is there another Art historian dealing with this terminology ? For instance, I can't find wrolijke gezelschappen in the Netherland's Wikipedia : isn't it rather odd ? --Marc-AntoineV (talk) 13:19, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]