Peasants feasting in a Barn
Gerrit Lundens (Amsterdam 1622 – Amsterdam after 1683)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1667 - 1673
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1208 x 1470 mm
Order this imageCollection
Melford Hall, Suffolk
NT 926838
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Peasants feasting in a Barn by Gerrit Lundens (Amsterdam 1622 – Amsterdam after 1683), bears signature: J. Steen (overwritten), late 1660s - to early 1670s. A banquet of male peasants feasting in a barn, with a village visible through its door.
Provenance
Part of the Hyde Parker collection, transferred from HM Treasury in 1960
Makers and roles
Gerrit Lundens (Amsterdam 1622 – Amsterdam after 1683), artist previously catalogued as manner of Jan Steen (Leyden 1626 – Leyden 1679), artist