The Merry Drinker
c. 1628 - c. 1630
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
81; 66.5
About this artwork
…: sale, Baroness Hermina Jacoba van Leyden van Warmond, née Comtesse de Thoms (1744-1814), Warmond Castle, sold on the premises (P. van der Schley et al.), 31 July 1816, no. 13 (‘un guerrier ayant un visage riant et tenant un verre à la main [...] sur bois; haut 2 pieds 7 pouces, longue 2 pieds 2 pouces’ [74.6 x 61.8 cm]), fl. 325, to De Vries, for the museum
About the Artist
Frans Hals · 1582–1666
Dutch portrait artist whose unique style of loose brushstrokes was labeled 'unfinished' by some at the time, but whose work is now regarded as equally important to Rembrandt's. Hals painted 'wet on wet'; that coupled with his brushwork and his powerful illumination of his subjects' head and face, his portraits seem more animated than others. Although the reception to his work was often mixed, Hals...