A Party of Merrymakers, ca. 1635?38, Oil on wood, 14 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (37. 5 x 49. 5 cm), Paintings, Pieter Jansz. Quast (Dutch, Amsterdam (? ) 1605/6?1647 Amsterdam), Viewers of the time would have taken in at a glance not only the off-key carousing but also signs?the fancy shoes, frizzy hair, open collar, and so on?that make the symbolic satyr redundant. Quast worked in the cosmopolitan milieus of Amsterdam and The Hague