
Dirck Franchoisz Hals
Music-Making Company on a Terrace
1620/25
Details
Type
Painting
Material and technique
Oil on panel
Subject
Painting; genre painting
Dimensions
77 × 109 × 11,5 cm
Identifier
os 76-10
Source
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, purchased with the support of the Vereniging Vrienden van het Frans Hals Museum
Rights
Photo: Tom Haartsen
About the artwork
Young people have gathered in a garden, or perhaps a park. These beautiful, evidently wealthy people are dressed in stunning clothes. That scarlet ensemble, for example! Contemporaries would have understood that this is all about love: after all, like music, love depends on harmony. But the love portrayed here by Dirck Hals – younger brother of Frans – is not just spiritual, these revellers are openly flirting. Even the dogs are sniffing each other.