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Paintings showing specific celebrations such as weddings or the festivities for Twelfth Night, the main mid-winter celebration in the Netherlands, or the playing of specific games, are likely to have titles relating to these where the subject is still clear.

He also painted a few large courtly company scenes, including his Garden of Love, (Prado, 1634-5).

Slive, Seymour, Dutch Painting, 1600–1800, 1995, Yale UP, ISBN 0300074514



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