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| After our long walk we are at last at the Frans Hals Museum, formerly, and in his day, an old men's home; as fashions changed, Hals' finances declined to bankruptcy, as did Rembrandt's; the Haarlem city council provided him with an annual allowance, and commissions, so that he never became a resident of the home |
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| Still life; we were hungry, so began our museum tour at the museum restaurant with sausages in flaky pastries; and then split the apple pie... would you like some cream on the pie, madame? |
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| As you'll see in the next post, I do bear a striking resemblance to Hals... |
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| The tour proper begins with a 15 minute multi-media presentation on Hals, his artistic background, achievement and influence, and on the museum itself |
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| Not to be missed for its representations of famous works not at this museum (explained next post) |
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| Maueten van Heemskerck, St. Luke Painting the Madonna and Child, 1532; according to legend, St. Luke was a painter and thus the patron saint of painters; we wondered what kind of commission you'd get for this sort of painting... |
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| Rene Sance, Gimme A Little Head, 1527 |
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| We love these Bosch-type works, this one by ... Mandijn, Antwerp, Temptations of St. Anthony, 1558 |
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| Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, Monk Touching A Nun, 1591; first, you've got your Protestant view, namely, the debauchery inherent in the orders of Romish Christianity; then your Catholic view, namely, a nun accused of being pregnant, tested: if she gave milk, she was condemned... instead she gave wine...from which we get the proverb, in vino, veritas; nyuk, nyuk, nyuk |
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| What group portraits looked like before Rembrandt and Hals... Jan van Scorel, Twelve Members of the Jerusalem Brotherhood of Haarlem, 1527; all these guys had their passports stamped "Jersusalem" |
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| Banquet of Members of the Haarlem Civic Guard, 1583, Cornelis van Haarlem; a generation or two before Rembrandt and Hals, one can already see a little life injected into the group portraits |
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| Muy importante...enlarge to view... Jan Breughel the Younger's Allegory on the Tulip Trade, 1640; macroeconomics in art; well worth studying; the first great capitalist bubble...burst! |
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| Gerrit Adriaenz Berckheydge, The Great Market in Haarlem...1698...hasn't changed that much...really |
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| The Franz Hals Museum has a doll house, too, which Vicki said compared favorably with the Rijksmuseum's |
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| Some say Judith Leyster was a pupil of Hals'; some say not; but she clearly had mastered his approach...I'd spot this as a Hals anytime: Peeckelhearing, 1629 |
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| Jan Steen, A Village Fair, 1629; we love the moralistic and storytelling Jan Steen as much as we love Hals |
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| Jan Breughel the Younger? I lost the label! Anyhow a copy of Peter Breughel Elder's 100 Proverbs, the original of which we have seen in the Gemaldegalerie in Berlin; incredible, nonetheless |
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| Interior of the old men's home...something to look forward to... |
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| Thus |
