All Genre Scenes

Paintings depicting scenes of everyday, domestic or social life with no named individual sitter and no religious, mythological or documented-historical narrative, the genre the classical hierarchy and the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus both class as genre painting. Belongs here: depictions of leisure, labor, domestic routine and social gathering among unnamed or generic figures. Does not belong here: a painting of a named, identifiable sitter, which belongs under Portraits, and a painting whose scene illustrates a specific historical or sacred event, which belongs under History and Political Paintings or Religious and Mythological Paintings.