Sujet

Merry Company, c1620. Creator: Dirck Hals.

Légende

Merry Company, c1620. The young people in this painting emphasise their fashion-consciousness with colourful fabrics and large lace collars. The table in the garden is sumptuously laid, the wine already flowing in abundance. The oysters-known for their aphrodisiacal qualities-have also taken effect. Yet two of the men seem somewhat out of place. The bearded fat fellow in black is the ‘Peeckelharing’, a personification of drunkenness, and the standing man with the old-fashioned red hat is ‘Hansworst’. They are two well-known jester types whose presence mocks the carefree wastefulness of the ‘merry company’.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM26A13_290

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

15.5Mo (1.8Mo) / 24.1cm x 16.0cm / 2850 x 1895 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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