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Europe 1300 - 1800
Course: Europe 1300 - 1800 > Unit 9
Lesson 4: Dutch Republic- Model of the Dutch East India Company ship "Valkenisse"
- The Dutch art market in the 17th century
- Why make a self portrait?
- A Dutch doll house
- Van Mander, Het Schilder-Boeck
- Frederiks Andries, Covered coconut cup
- Osias Beert, Still Life with Various Vessels on a Table
- Anthony van Dyck, Self-Portrait as Icarus with Daedalus
- Saenredam, Interior of Saint Bavo, Haarlem
- Hals, Singing Boy with Flute
- Hals, Malle Babbe
- Frans Hals, The Women Regents
- Willem Claesz. Heda, Still Life with Glasses and Tobacco
- Rembrandt, The Artist in His Studio
- Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
- Rembrandt, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
- Rembrandt, The Night Watch
- Rembrandt, The Night Watch
- Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with Saskia
- Rembrandt, Girl at a Window
- Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
- Rembrandt, Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
- Rembrandt, Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses.
- Rembrandt, Bathsheba at her Bath
- Rembrandt, Abraham Francen
- Rembrandt, Self-Portrait
- Rembrandt, Self-Portrait with Two Circles
- Rembrandt, The Jewish Bride
- Rembrandt, Christ Preaching (Hundred Guilder Print)
- Is it a genuine Rembrandt?
- Judith Leyster, The Proposition
- Judith Leyster, Self-Portrait
- Early Dutch Torah Finials
- Michaelina Wautier, The Five Senses
- Willem Kalf, Still Life with a Silver Ewer
- Gerrit Dou, A Woman Playing a Clavichord
- Vermeer, The Glass of Wine
- Vermeer, Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
- Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance
- Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance
- Johannes Vermeer, Girl with a Pearl Earring
- Johannes Vermeer, The Art of Painting
- Jan Steen, Feast of St. Nicholas
- Ruisdael, View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds
- Jacob van Ruisdael, The Jewish Cemetery
- Andries Beeckman, The Castle of Batavia and Dutch colonialism
- Frans Post, Landscape with Ruins in Olinda
- Rachel Ruysch, Fruit and Insects
- Rachel Ruysch, Flower Still-Life
- Van Huysum, Vase with Flowers
- Conserving van Walscapelle's Flowers in a Glass Vase
- The Great Atlas, Dutch edition
- The Town Hall of Amsterdam
- Huis ten Bosch (House in the Woods)
- 17th century Delftware
- Baroque art in Holland
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Hals, Singing Boy with Flute
Frans Hals, Singing Boy with Flute, c. 1623, oil on canvas, 68.8 x 55.2 cm (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Want to join the conversation?
- I like this painting, but why is there such a huge gap above the figure's head?(5 votes)
- They talk about this for a bit atin the video. Like Steven and Beth suggested, that empty space does give the viewer the impression that there is much more to this room than just this boy — it may even serve to emphasize his small size, perhaps indicating that he is playing to a room of adults. 1:03(8 votes)
- Looks more like a pennywhistle than a flute. What do others think?(4 votes)
- It does look a bit like a Penny Whistle (I should know, I play it) but, look at the number of holes beneath the musician's hand. There are four, while a traditional Penny Whistle (at least to my knowledge) should have three holes for each hand. Three for the left hand, three for the right, six total. I could be wrong in that it isn't a Penny Whistle, especially because the boy covers part of the holes, but I don't think it is a Penny Whistle. This was a little long of an answer, but I hope it helped! :)(3 votes)
- At, why does he look happy, but not want to play anymore? 0:27(1 vote)
- Maybe he has been playing for hours and is tired but still happy they enjoyed him so much.(5 votes)
- For whom did the artist create this painting? A rich family? I doubt if a church was involved.(1 vote)
- in the context of the northern netherlands (the republic, not the flemish part of belgium) where the church was Protestant, there were precious few images in churches, but believers lavishly decorated their homes.(3 votes)
- how can we make the flute make sound ?(1 vote)
- Well i guess you could brushstroke wavy vibration lines, which indicate soundwaves, flowing threw the air, very suttle.(2 votes)
- Is this the begining of his performance, or the end?(1 vote)
Video transcript
(piano playing) Male voiceover: It's as if
he's saying, "No. No. No more. "I don't want to play yet
another song." (laughter) Female voiceover: You imagine that
he's been singing and playing the flute so beautifully that his
audience is asking for more. Male voiceover: Well, look
at the pleasure on his face. He looks so self-satisfied. He's just turned away. His
hand is up. (female laughs) The other hand is still on the
flute as if he's just stopped with his finger in one of it's holes. Female voiceover: "I can't
possibly play another." Male voiceover: (laughs) Or he could
just be pausing in his singing, which is a standard type that we
see in 17th century Dutch painting. The thing, of course, that carries
this painting, is its brushwork, its sense of informality,
its sense of the momentary, the way in which the fluidity of the
artist's hand moving through this canvas, and the motion of the figure himself,
are so beautifully brought together. Female voiceover: I thought
you were going to say what carries this painting is the feather. Male voiceover: (laughs) Okay. Female voiceover: (laughs)
because it's so wild, this giant white feather that
completes this circular form that starts down by his mouth. Male voiceover: There's
all that space above, so that his face is even
slightly lower than center. Also, the sense that
this space to move in, that the artist has only
captured this one frame, and that there's plenty of other
things that are going around outside of what we can see. Female voiceover: You don't normally
think about Hals as a colorist, but the colors are
fabulous in this painting, these mauve purples, and the blue
of his sleeve that just comes out a little bit around his wrist,
and touches of blue in the green on his left shoulder. Then, touches of bluish
white around his wrists. Male voiceover: All of
which tends to highlight the ruddy warm color of the flute itself, and of course of his cheeks. It is just a wonderfully playful
moment so expertly caught. Yet, the artist makes the
image look so easy to create. Female voiceover: His face turns away, and yet we really feel very
engaged with this figure. An incredible sense of
bravura and immediacy. Those are the things
that Hals is known for. (piano playing)