The Visit
Pieter de Hooch
ca. 1657
Merry Company with Two Men and Two Women, also known as The Visit, is an oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, created c. 1657. It is an example of a Merry Company, a popular form of genre painting in Dutch Golden Age painting showing a group of figures, who are not meant to be identified as portraits, enjoying each other's company. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.
The painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:192.
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