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Pietro Longhi painted this in 1746, aged 44. It is now at The Met in New York. More about this work
About this work
Pietro Longhi painted this in 1746, aged 44. It is now at The Met in New York.
How it was made
- Oil paint
- Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.
Pietro Longhi
Italian, 1702–1785 · Born and died in Venice.
Pietro Longhi, born Pietro Falca, trained with Antonio Balestra and then in Bologna with Giuseppe Maria Crespi, who encouraged his turn from history painting to genre. From the 1740s he painted small, gently ironic scenes of Venetian life: patricians receiving visitors, masked ladies, dancing lessons, card games and curiosities shown to crowds. Admired by the playwright Carlo Goldoni, these pictures record the manners of the city in the last decades of the Republic.
Written by Ochre Editions.
Rights and the museum’s record
Public domain. The Met has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.
- Object number
- 36.16
- Credit
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Type
- Paintings
- Department
- European Paintings
- Licence
- CC0 1.0 Universal
- Museum record
- See it on the museum’s site
