Manhood, Marriage, and MischiefA study of the theory and practice of seventeenth century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers an account of the genres comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are husbands and householders as well as members of civic and proto military organizations. The introduction picks out anomalous touches with which Rembrandt problematizes standard group portrait motifs in The