Elegant company merry making in an interior

Details

Dirck Hals (1592-1656)
Elegant company merry making in an interior
signed (strengthened) DH (linked) lower right and with the inventory number N0 89 on the reverse
oil on panel
44.8 x 70.4 cm

Provenance

Kruseman, Amsterdam; His Sale, Frederik Muller Amsterdam, 11 February 1919, lot 68, ill, as Jan Miense Molenaer.
with L. Koetser, London, 1958.

Exhibited

London, Koetser Galleries, 1 November-15 December 1958, cat. no. 5, ill.

Special notice

Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

Lot Essay

A similar officer playing the flute and seated on a chair appears in the picture in the Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (F.G. Meyer, "Een nieuwe kijk op Franchoys Elaut (1589-1635)" in Oud Holland, 1995, no.1-2, p.28, note 29, and in the picture signed and dated 1637, offered at auction in Paris, 4 December 1907, lot 7 (F.G. Meyer, op. cit., p.26, fig.8).

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