Merry Company on a Terrace, 1625

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 50-B

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 38.7 × 51.5 cm (15 1/4 × 20 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

Accession Number

2020.11.1

Artists / Makers

Dirck Hals (painter) Dutch, 1591 - 1656

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right on base of column, the DH in monogram: DHALS ANo 1625

Provenance

Mr. Bryant, Bristol; (his sale, Bristol, 27 April 1848); purchased by Humphry Willyams [1792-1872], Carnanton House, Mawgan-in-Pydar, Cornwall.[1] Joseph H. Carter [1862-1937], London, in 1896/1898 or later;[2] by descent in his family; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 19 April 1985, no. 43); (Richard Green Fine Art, London); sold 1985 to Maida and George Abrams, Newton, Massachusetts; purchased through (Sotheby's, New York) March 2020 by NGA.

[1] Catalogue of the Antient [sic] and Modern Pictures in the Collection of Humphry Willyams, Esq. at Carnanton, Cornwall, London, 1871: 92, no. 38. According to this self-published catalogue, Willyams purchased two other paintings at the 1848 sale, and he also gives the sale date as April 23. Mr. Bryant and his sale have yet to be identified.

[2] Carter was a British painting conservator, dealer, and artist. A label on the reverse of the panel includes the address (58 Bond Street) at which he appears in London trade directories, and also includes the notation of catalogue number 203. Carter was also known as J. Purves Carter, the "Purves" being his mother's maiden name. For a detailed biography, see: https://www.npg.org.uk/research/programmes/directory-of-british-picture-restorers/british-picture-restorers-1600-1950-c, accessed 28 May 2020.

Associated Names

Abrams, George, Mr. and Mrs.
Bryant Mr.
Carter, Joseph H.
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Green, Richard
Willyams, Humphry

Exhibition History

1992: Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1992, no. 71, pl. 53.

2002: The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Painting in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2002, repro.

2021: Clouds, Ice, and Bounty: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021, no. 25, repro.

Bibliography

1871: Catalogue of the Antient [sic] and Modern Pictures in the Collection of Humphry Willyams, Esq. at Carnanton, Cornwall. London, 1871: 92, no. 38.

2003: Nehlsen-Marten, Britta. Dirck Hals, 1591-1656: Oeuvre und Entwicklung eines Haarlemer Genremalers. Weimar, 2003: 267, no. 31, 368 ill. 102.