# Merrymakers at Shrovetide, in Frans Hals

Frans Hals painted this in about 1616–17, aged about 34. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> An elaborately dressed young woman sits at a crowded table during the boisterous days before Lent, surrounded by grinning revellers, among them two stock characters of Dutch carnival theatre, Peeckelhaeringh and Hans Wurst.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1616–17
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 51 3/4 x 39 1/4 in. (131.4 x 99.7 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14.40.605
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Frans Hals](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/frans-hals), Dutch, 1582–1666

Hals was born in Antwerp but spent his whole career in Haarlem, where he became its leading portraitist.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Frans Hals's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-frans-hals?hang=748) (8 works)
- [More Dutch and Flemish Baroque](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/dutch-and-flemish-baroque?hang=748) (94 works)
- [17th-century Netherlands](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/17-netherlands?hang=748) (91 works)

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