M455: A civic guardsman holding a berkemeijer, known as 'The merry drinker'

(c.1628-1630)

Biographical information

By:

HALS, Frans

Executed in:

Haarlem

Support:

canvas

Medium:

oil

Dimensions (cm):

81.00 x 66.50

Signed?

YES

Museum:

Rijksmuseum [inv.nr: SK-A-135]

Data

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Description:

Preparatory layers:

1 (LBr)

Free-text description:

Light beige ground layer

Paint layers (oil)

canvas

Layer information:

(Counting from the support up towards the paint layers)

Layer 1:

Colour: Light brown

Composition:

Data information:

Reliability-rating:

Researchers:

Gwen Tauber

Source:

Bikker, Jonathan, Yvette Bruijnen, and Gerdien Wuestman, eds. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: Volume 1 - Artists Born between 1570 and 1600. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum; Nieuw Amsterdam, 2007.