Dutch Cavaliers and Their Ladies Making Music

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Pieter Codde was to be commissioned to complete Frans Hals' great painting of the 'Militia Company' (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). Although usually working on a very much smaller scale and with a meticulous technique quite unlike the free handling of Hals' brushwork, Codde's interest in the animated interrelationships of his figures reflects the influence of Hals. Here Codde emphasises this concern by crowding the figures together and leaving much of the sparsely furnished room empty.This work is painted largely in a subtle variety of browns and greys, set off by the two spectacularly rendered dresses of yellow and blue. The date, 1631, is carved above the doorway. The walls are hung with decoratively embossed leather panels typical of the time.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

Dutch Cavaliers and Their Ladies Making Music

Date

1631

Medium

oil on oak panel

Measurements

H 47.2 x W 62.5 cm

Accession number

K1644

Acquisition method

bequeathed by F. P. M. Schiller, 1946

Work type

Painting

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