Dirck Hals
The Merry Company

ArtistDutch, 1591–1656
CultureDutch
Titles
  • The Merry Company
Date1630s
MediumOil on panel
DimensionsPanel: 20 1/2 × 32 3/4 in. (52.1 × 83.2 cm)
Frame (outer): 26 × 38 1/4 × 1 3/4 in. (66 × 97.2 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston
Object numberBF.1978.15
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
217 Blaffer Galleries
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ProvenanceBaldwin Wallace College Collection, Berea, Ohio, 1965; [P. de Boer Gallery, Amsterdam]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 1978.
Exhibition History"Communication: Visualizing the Human Connection in the Age of Vermeer," Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan, October 27–December 12, 2011; Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, December 23, 2011–March 14, 2012.

"Genre Scenes, Portraits and Still-life: Dutch and Flemish Paintings of the 16th and 17th Centuries," El Paso Museum of Art, September 16, 2012–January 6, 2013.




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