Frans_Hals,_Merrymakers_at_Shrovetide,_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art.jpg

Summary

Frans Hals : Shrovetide Revellers wikidata:Q12088934 reasonator:Q12088934
Artist
Frans Hals (1582/1583–1666) wikidata:Q167654 s:en:Author:Frans Hals
Frans Hals
Alternative names
Frans Franchoisz Hals
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1582 or 1583
date QS:P,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1583-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
26 August 1666 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Antwerp Haarlem
Work period between circa 1603 and circa 1666
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1603-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1666-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Haarlem (1608–1616); Antwerp (1616–1616); Haarlem (1617–1666) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q167654
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
English:
Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1616–17
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions 51 ¾ × 39 ¼ in. (131.4 × 99.7 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
room 634
Accession number
14.40.605
Place of creation Haarlem Edit this at Wikidata
Credit line
English: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
References
Source/Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art

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