Day 35 – 12/14/16: European Paintings 1250-1800 (part)

On another four-day trip to New York, we finished the later Italian paintings, which included sweeping landscapes and scenes of ordinary life. We then took an interesting tour of the Islamic galleries.

Merry-making in three countries. France: Jean-Baptiste Joseph Pater, The Fair at Bezons (ca. 1730)














Italy: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, A Dance in the Country (ca. 1755)












Holland: Jan Steen, Merry Company on a Terrace (ca. 1670)