The Visit

Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)

1746 · Oil on canvas · European Paintings

An elegant woman looks out of the painting with an expression both bored and bemused. She is encircled by four men, including a standing figure who is probably her husband, a family chaplain whose religious concerns are presumably about to be ignored, and a possible suitor dressed in yellow, whose offer of a biscuit to the dog may carry erotic symbolism.

Artist

Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca)

Date

1746

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1912