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Frans Hals: Merrymakers at Shrovetide  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
Merrymakers at Shrovetide Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Merrymakers at Shrovetide Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Merrymakers at Shrovetide Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lit,"Festaioli al carnevale"
label QS:Lfr,"Fêtards du Mardi Gras"
label QS:Lru,"Потешники на Масленице"
label QS:Lde,"Lustige Gesellschaft"
label QS:Lpt,"Foliões na terça-feira de Carnaval"
label QS:Lzh,"忏悔节的寻乐者"
label QS:Lda,"Fastelavnsdeltagere"
label QS:Lja,"ざんげ節に浮かれ騒ぐ人々"
label QS:Luk,"Веселе товариство (Галс)"
label QS:Laz,"Apakuriya Karnavalı"
label QS:Les,"Juerguistas en el martes de Carnaval"
label QS:Lko,"참회절 슈로브타이드 축제에서 떠들썩한 사람들"
label QS:Lnl,"Feestvierders"
label QS:Lar,"مهرّجون في أيّام المرافع"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa from 1616 until 1617
date QS:P,+1616-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P580,+1616-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1617-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
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Medium oil on canvas Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 131.4 cm (51.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 99.7 cm (39.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+131.4U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+99.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
room 637
Accession number
14.40.605 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Haarlem Edit this at Wikidata
Object history

5 June 1765: anonymous sale at an unknown auction house, Amsterdam (as ‘Een ryke Ordinantie van veel Beelden halver Lyf te zien, verbeeldende een Vasten-Avond vreugd, zeer kragtig op doek, door Frans Hals: hoog 36, breet 49 duimen’)
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by 1874-1883: Monsieur Cocret, Paris
by 1907
date QS:P,+1907-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1907-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Kleinberger (art dealer), Paris/New York City

1907: acquired by D.S. Hess and Company, New York City
1907: purchased by Benjamin Altman (†1913), New York City, from D.S. Hess and Company, New York City

1913: bequeathed to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, by Benjamin Altman, New York City
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English: Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
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Source/Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art

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