3-035-408 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Merry Company in an Arbour, 1615. At the left of this small landscape, a group of maidens make music under an arbour of flowers. In an enclosed area to the right, two women sit on a net used for catching finches. From all sides, youths spy on the women, perching in trees or hiding behind bushes or tree trunks. One bold voyeur clings to the top of the arbour, peering down at the women below. Another, entangled in a net, is apprehended by a soberly dressed woman, while two jesters above have fallen out of the trees.