Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Marcellus Laroon the Younger, 1679–1772, British
Title:
A Dinner Conversation
Date:
between 1735 and 1740
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
14 x 12 inches (35.6 x 30.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.405
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
bows (costume accessories) | servant | food | luggage | painting (visual work) | bag | man | tricorne | tray | table | shoes | woman | bottle | dinner | genre subject | officer (military officer) | syllabub glasses | dinner | wine | drinking | meal
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Conversation Piece - Arthur Devis & His Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-10-01 - 1980-11-30)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 140-141, N590.2 A83 (YCBA)

Ellen G. D'Oench, The Conversation Piece: Arthur Devis & his contemporaries, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1980, pp. 6, 70, cat. no. 52, NJ18 D5151 D64 OVERSIZE

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 107 (v.1), no. 203, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:890