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Militia Company of District XI under the Command of Captain Reynier Reael
Also titled Schutters van wijk XI onder leiding van kapitein Reynier Reael
Pieter Codde (Amsterdam, ca. –1678)
Frans Hals (Antwerp, ca. –1666)
1637
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 233 cm x width 452 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- 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
So much went wrong with this Amsterdam militia company portrait. Hals made several trips to the capital to portray the guardsmen, but some never showed up. Finally, he insisted they come to Haarlem, but they refused, instead engaging the Amsterdam painter Pieter Codde to complete the work. Hals’ progress then remains unclear, but the composition and the seven figures on the left seem to be largely by him.
