... Famous painting by Dutch master Frans Hals, created around 1630... the portrait is known for its vivid depiction of a woman apparently talking or laughing at someone or something to the right of the canvas, holding a beer jug... often called Malle Babbe, she was presumably a resident of a home for the mentally handicapped in Haarlem, where Frans Hals lived and worked... he depicts her with a certain dignity and a touch of humour, without caricaturing or stigmatising her... this makes the work not only artistically valuable, but also socially and historically significant... and as always with nice stamps and wonderful special postmarks...👍 Thanks Dustin!ヽ(ヅ)ノ
The Gemäldegalerie is an art museum in Berlin. It is part of the Berlin State Museums and houses holdings of old European paintings from the 13th to the 18th century.
With nine works, this galerie has one of the most extensive and high-calibre collections of paintings by Frans Hals in the world, including highlights such as the Malle Babbe, the Portrait of Catharina Hooft with Her Nurse, and the Singing Boy with Flute.
Frans Hals (1582/83–1666) ranks among the most outstanding Dutch painters of the 17th century. In addition to unconventional, expressive portraits of the Haarlem elite, he was the first artist in Holland to paint social outsiders as individuals in portrait format.
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