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Four richly dressed figures in a panelled room: a seated man with a dog, a woman in a black gown, and two standing women in red and grey.

Voorname vrijage (Courtship in Elegant Company)

Four elegantly dressed figures gather in a panelled interior before a tapestry. A man in a tall hat and orange-and-yellow doublet lounges on a bench beside a small grey dog, while a woman in a deep ruff sits facing him. Two standing figures in rose-red and grey silk, with large lace collars, watch the scene.

Artist
Willem Pietersz Buytewech
Date
1616-1620
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
4000 × 3176 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1620.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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