''Man with a Beer Jug'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the
Dutch Golden Age painter
Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.
The new Dutch Repub ...
Frans Hals
Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem.
Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group ...
, painted in the early 1630s, now in a private collection.
Painting
This painting was documented by
Seymour Slive
Seymour Slive (September 15, 1920 – June 14, 2014) was an American art historian, who served as director of the Harvard Art Museums from 1975 to 1984. Slive was a scholar of Dutch art, specifically of the artists Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Ja ...
in 1974, who claimed that it was in the collection of
Henry Reichhold in White Plains, New York. The figure of a red deer on the front of the beer jug corresponds with the house name "Het Rode Hert" of the Haarlem beer brewer
Cornelis Guldewagen
Cornelis Guldewagen (1599 – 1663), was a Haarlem mayor, known best today for his portrait by Frans Hals.
Biography
He was born in Haarlem and was admitted to the Haarlem regency in 1625, becoming mayor in 1644. In 1627 he married Agatha van ...
, whose portrait was painted by Hals in 1660. Though the genre of the work is similar to works painted by Hals in the early thirties, the rough brush strokes are more similar to his work in the sixties. Possibly, the man with the jug and Guldewagen himself are the same:
File:Frans Hals - portrait of a man holding a beer jug.jpg
File:Frans Hals Guldewagen.jpg
In an old
genre painting
Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached ...
of
Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
from the 1650s, a man is transporting beer jugs with a horse-drawn sled. The jugs have a red deer on them, the symbol of Guldewagen's brewery:
[Research on catalog nr. 67 "Cornelis Guldewagen", by C.A. van Hees for ''Frans Hals'', Exhibition catalog, 1962 for the Frans Hals Museum, title : Exhibition on the Occasion of the Centenary of the Municipal Museum at Haarlem, 1862-1962, exhibition committee: H.P. Baard, Seymour Slive, A.B. de Vries]
File:Jan Wouwerman - St. Bavokerk from the southeast.jpg, St. Bavochurch from the Southeast, by Jan Wouwerman
File:Zuiderhofje Haarlem oude bierkruik.JPG, Old Haarlem beer jug in the Zuiderhofje
The Zuiderhofje is a hofje in Haarlem, Netherlands.
History
The hofje was founded in 1640 by Jacques van Damme and his wife Elisabeth Blinckvliedt, and is owned by the Mennonite church of Haarlem. The couple gave an order to Michael Slaghre ...
References
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1630s paintings
Paintings by Frans Hals
Portraits of men
Food and drink paintings