A Music Party, c.1675 (oil on panel)

A violinist plays while a couple in the background peruse some papers, perhaps a music score. The curvaceous cello in the foreground and bed-curtains pulled slightly apart lend a subtle erotic note to the scene. This is considered a good example from the Leiden School of 'fine' painters, who specialised in small-scale scenes of everyday life executed with exceptional skill, refinement and great attention to detail. The traditional attribution to Frans van Mieris the elder has been questioned, and instead it is thought it was probably painted by another artist of the Leiden School.