The Fête champêtre
Also titled De buitenpartij
Dirck Hals (Haarlem, 1591–1656)
1627
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 77.6 cm x width 135.7 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
The 17th-century public would have delighted in this amusing spectacle. At the same time, viewers would have been aware of its hidden message: there is more to life on earth than eating, drinking and merrymaking. A telling detail is the chained monkey: it stands for sinful man, who allows himself to be fettered by his base instincts.
