Dirck Hals
Interior with trick track players and a couple drinking wine
Details
Literatur:
Herwig Guratzsch (Hrsg.), bearb. von Dietulf Sander, Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig. Katalog der Gemälde, Stuttgart 1995, S. 233, Kat.-Nr. 553;
Britta Nehlsen-Marten, Dirck Hals 1591-1656. Œuvre und Entwicklung eines Haarlemer Genremalers, Weimar 2003, Kat.-Nr. 138 (als “eher Umkreis von D. Hals”).
Provenienz:
Ehemals Thiem’sche Stiftung 1886, Museum Leipzig, verso mit der handschriftlichen Kat.-Nr. 553 (Das Gemälde wurde 1933 im Tausch gegen eine Berglandschaft von Valckenborch (Inv.-Nr. 1240) an P. de Boer abgegeben);
Kunsthandel Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam;
Privatsammlung, Unterfranken, in obigem Kunsthandel 1943 erworben (mit Transportanweisung des holländischen Spediteurs vom 28.4.1943 in Kopie);
Privatsammlung, Süddeutschland.
Description
The interior shows four people gathered around a table, each acting in pairs. Two of the gentlemen are engrossed in a game of trick-taking, a kind of backgammon, while on the left a lady is amusing herself with her neighbour, who is sitting out a game, and offering him a glass of wine. The motif of the two men bent over the gaming table can also be found in other paintings by Dirck Hals (see Dirck Hals (together with Dirck van Delen), Celebration in a Renaissance Hall, 1628, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, inv. no. 75-318).
Britta Nehlsen-Marten pointed out the unusual compactness of the figures for Hals and located the work in the artist’s circle.
The painting is registered at the RKD, The Hague, under the image number 0000193790 (as Dirck Hals).
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