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Now on display in the museum

Dirck Franchoisz Hals

(1591 - 1656)

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.

FRANS HALS MUSEUM

Groot Heiligland 62, Haarlem


Open Tuesday – Sunday
11 AM – 5 PM

HAL

Grote Markt 16, Haarlem


Temporary modern and contemporary art exhibition

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