The Youth of Bacchus (1865) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)

Revelers by Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678)

A Club of Gentlemen (1730) by Joseph Highmore (1692-1780) Note: since the early 1600s, a round of drinks has meant “a quantity of liquor served to a company at one time”; probably because it was customary for gentlemen to drink at these round tables in a circle facing one another.

A Midnight Modern Conversation (1732) by William Hogarth (1697-1764)

Figures Eating and Drinking Around a Table (1634) by Theodoor Rombouts (1597-1637)

Working Class by Norman Cornish (1919-2014)

Nightlife (1943) by Archibald John Motley, Jr. (1891-1981)

Le Moulin de la Galette (1900) by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Untitled (1882) by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988)

The Charleston (1926) by Frank Harmon Myers (1889-1956)

Roppongi Nightclub (2013) by Carl Randall (born 1975)