Merry Company on a Terrace
Catalogue
- Year
- 1625
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- overall: 38.7 × 51.5 cm (15 1/4 × 20 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Artist
- Dirck Hals
Artist
Drawing
Dirck Hals was a Dutch Golden Age painter specializing in interior genre scenes populated by elegantly dressed figures engaged in leisurely pursuits, music, and conversation. Active in Haarlem during the seventeenth century, he developed a refined technique for rendering light across domestic spaces and textile surfaces. His small-scale panel paintings established a template for the Dutch interior genre that influenced numerous contemporaries.
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- Dirck Hals
- Year
- 1625
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- overall: 38.7 × 51.5 cm (15 1/4 × 20 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1625-295023
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified