Year 1630 (1630) Location Private collection Created 1630 | Medium Oil on canvas Artist Frans Hals | |
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Catalogue Seymour Slive, Catalog 1974: #74 Dimensions 83 cm × 66 cm (33 in × 26 in) Frans Hals artwork Laughing Fisherboy, Laughing Boy with Flute, Hylck Boner, Catharina Brugmans, Cunera van Baersdorp | ||
Portrait of a man with a beer jug is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in the early 1630s, now in a private collection.
Painting
This painting was documented by Seymour Slive 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, 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:
In an old genre painting of Haarlem 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: