A merry company smoking, drinking and playing backgammon in an interior

Details

DIRCK HALS (HAARLEM 1591-1656) AND STUDIO
A merry company smoking, drinking and playing backgammon in an interior
oil on panel
15 5⁄8 x 22 ¼ in. (39.7 x 56.6 cm.)

Provenance

with Galerie J. Herbrand, Paris, 1928.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1971, from whom acquired by the father of the present owner.

Literature

B. Nehlsen-Marten, Dirck Hals 1591-1656: Oeuvre und Entwicklung eines Haarlemer Genremalers, Weimar, 2003, p. 282, no. 134, illustrated, as probably by Dirck Hals.

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Lot Essay

This jovial scene of drinkers and backgammon players is almost identical in composition to a painting by Hals which is dated 1628 (last recorded in 1957, also with P. de Boer, Amsterdam; see Nehlsen-Marten, op. cit., p. 280, no. 117), which features a dog at lower left.

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