Four Dancing Children (Bacchantes) and Two Making Music

1640—1650

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 11 5/8 in. (23.5 × 29.5 cm)
Collection no.: 2012.136.605
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Erasmus Quellinus the Younger. Four Dancing Children (Bacchantes) and Two Making Music. Erasmus Quellinus the Younger; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Four Dancing Children (Bacchantes) and Two Making Music — Erasmus Quellinus the Younger. 1640—1650.

Medium: Etching and engraving. Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/4 × 11 5/8 in. (23.5 × 29.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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