A Banquet
1628
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
16 x 26 in. (40.6 x 66 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, 1871
Accession Number
71.108
Tags
Art Historical Context
**A Banquet** by Dirck Hals (8) invites visitors into a lively 17th-century Dutch interior, where men and women gather around a table laden with food and drink. This oil on wood panel, measuring 16 x inches, captures a moment of convivial dining, reflecting the artist's specialty in intimate genre scenes of everyday merriment. Dirck Hals, younger brother of the renowned portraitist Frans Hals, was a key figure in the Dutch Age, a period of economic prosperity and cultural flourishing in the Netherlands. Working in Haarlem, he painted small-scale works like this one, emphasizing casual social...