File:Frans Hals - Banket Van De Officieren Van De Sint-Joris-Doelen.jpg
Hals’s artistic innovation in the present painting lay in the astonishing authenticity with which he achieved to represent a ceremony where the hierarchy of the participants, their positioning and their individual appearance were mostly predetermined. In addition, the depiction of these people was defined by their self-conception as representatives of the town's elite.
Traditionally, there were two civic guards in Haarlem, the St George civic guard the arquebusiers or cluveniers under the patron saint of St Adrian. In 1611 both were increased to three companies each. The officers were chosen by the municipal authorities from members of Haarlem’s most prestigious families, with a service period of three years. When a term ended, the town organized a banquet and commissioned a group portrait, serving as a memorial image for the persons of rank.
Portrayed are the officers serving in the St George civic guard from 1612 to 1615. After 1611 both urban militias, consisting of the St George Civic Guard and that of the Calivermen were enlarged with a third company whereby the total number rose from four to six. Each company consisted of four platoons and counted 100 or more men. The captain of the third company, Jacob Laurensz (no. 5) – the section to which Hals also belonged as a militiaman – occupies a place of honour in the painting: he sits at the head of the table together with the colonel and the provost.
An officer corps of the Haarlem militia was instituted as of the enlargement in 1612 and counted a colonel, a provost (who maintained order and oversaw the finances), three captains and three lieutenants.The town council appointed the officers for a period of three years, after which they stepped down and had to wait at least one term before they could be reappointed.Frans Hals Museum | |||
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Native name | Frans Hals Museum | ||
Location | |||
Coordinates | 52° 22′ 36″ N, 4° 38′ 00″ E | ||
Established | 1913 | ||
Website | www.franshalsmuseum.nl | ||
Authority file |
St. Jorisdoelen, Haarlem
1680s : transferred to Het Prinsenhof, Haarlemby 1862 : Museum der Stad Haarlem, Haarlem
1913: transferred to Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
- Frans Hals, Gemäldegalerie (12 July 2024 - 3 November 2024)
- Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1941, 4
- Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1989, 4
- Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1883, 1
- Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1910, 431
- The Most Famous Paintings of the World, 26
- Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 8
- Guide to the Frans Hals Museum at Haarlem, 123
- Frans Hals Exhibition catalog, 1937, 3
- Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1909, 1
- Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1914, 113
- Frans Hals and his workshop, A2.0
- Frans Hals Exhibition catalog, 1962, 5
- Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1974, 7
- Haarlem: The Cradle of the Golden Age, 59
- http://collectie.franshalsmuseum.nl/?query=search=objectid=14013&showtype=record (Dutch)
- https://www.wga.hu/html/h/hals/frans/00-1620/04nooff.html
- RKDimages ID: 11127
- Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur PID: 0000234522
- Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur ID: 08011858
- Q127942529, pp. 9−10, 15, 27
- Q107637737, pp. 172, 193, 247, 249−254, 264, 270
- Q127944147, pp. 144, 243−247, 249, 264, 272, 290
- Q127947309, pp. 47, 50, 54−59
- Q127947316, pp. 32−38, 43, 49, 59−60, 137
- Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1909, pp. 19, 22, 41, 99
- Frans Hals catalog raisonné, 1883, p. 43