The Merry Drinker
Also titled De vrolijke drinker
Frans Hals (Antwerp, ca. –1666)
c. 1628 - c. 1630
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 81 cm x width 66.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This work is a pinnacle of Hals’ bold and loose ‘rough’ style. The brushstrokes criss-cross the canvas, creating the impression of rapid execution as well as suggesting movement. The sitter, likely a civic guardsman or a military man based on his attire, is just about to raise his glass to toast with us.
