Militia Company of District XI under the Command of Captain Reynier Reael, Known as ‘The Meagre Company’, Frans Hals, Pieter Codde, 1637

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Militia Company of District XI under the Command of Captain Reynier Reael, Known as ‘The Meagre Company’, Frans Hals, Pieter Codde, 1637

oil on canvas, h 209cm × w 429cm Catalogue entry

A commission for a civic guard portrait was rarely granted to a painter from outside the city. Quite exceptionally, Frans Hals – from Haarlem – was asked to paint this group portrait. However, he soon found himself at odds with the guardsmen, and the Amsterdam painter Pieter Codde had to step in to finish the seven figures on the right. Known for his small-scale, very smoothly and finely executed works, Codde nevertheless imitated Hals’s loose style as best he could.

On display in Philips wing, room 1.4

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Identification

Title(s)

Militia Company of District XI under the Command of Captain Reynier Reael, Known as ‘The Meagre Company’
Officers and other Guardsmen of the XIth District of Amsterdam, under the Command of Captain Reijnier Reael and Lieutenant Cornelis Michielsz Blaeuw, known as the 'The Meagre Company'

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-C-374

Inscriptions / marks

date, centre right: ‘Aº 1637’

Description

Het korporaalschap van kapitein Reijnier Reael en luitenant Cornelis Michielsz Blaeuw, Amsterdam, 1637, bekend als 'De magere compagnie'. Schuttersstuk met twee zittende en verder alleen staande mannen. Sommigen met een vaandel, hellebaard en lans.

Creation

Artist

painter: Frans Hals
painter: Pieter Codde

Dating

1637

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

oil paint (paint)
canvas

Measurements

support: height 209 cm × width 429 cm
frame: height 233 cm × width 452 cm

Subject

What

warfare; military affairs (+ citizen soldiery, civil guard, citizen militia)

Who

Reynier Reael
Cornelis Michielsz. Blaeu
schutterij van Amsterdam

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 2-Oct-1885

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

Commissioned by the sitters for the Voetboogdoelen (headquarters of the crossbowmen’s civic guard); first mentioned in the Voetboogdoelen, 1653: ‘Aº. 1633. Ibid. [beneden de nieuwe Sael onder de Glasen] tegenover de Schoorsteen, Capn. Reynier Reael, Lutnt Cornelis Michielsz. Blau, aº 1637 bij Francois Hals begonnen, ende bij Codde voorts opgemaeckt’;{Schaep 1653, p. 134, no. 23.} transferred to the Great Council of War Chamber in the town hall by 1758;{Van Dyk 1758, pp. VI, 30, no. 20.} on loan to the museum from the City of Amsterdam since 1885

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Relations

Officieren en andere schutters van wijk XI in Amsterdam onder leiding van kapitein Reijnier Reael en luitenant Cornelis Michielsz Blaeuw, bekend als 'De magere compagnie'

Documentation

Van Gogh aan het werk, Marije Vellekoop, Nienke Bakker, Aggie Langedijk, p. 93, afb. 118
Becoming Van Gogh, Timothy J. Standring, Louis van Tilborgh, Simon Kelly, Alisia Robin Coon, p. 32, afb. 10 (detail)
The paintings of Hendrick Goltzius, 1558-1617 : a monograph and catalogue raisonné, Lawrence W. Nichols, Diane L. Webb, p. 333
De Gouden Eeuw : proeftuin van onze wereld, p. 149, afb. 4 (detail)
De oude Meesters van de stad Amsterdam : schilderijen tot 1800, p. 120-123, cat.nr. 21
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 180-182
Dutch portraits : the age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals, cat.nr. 21
Artists born between 1570 and 1600, p. 180-182
Hollanders in beeld : portretten uit de Gouden Eeuw, p. 120
Nederland in de Gouden Eeuw, p. 152-185, p. 162 (afbeelding)
Nederlandse kunst in het Rijksmuseum 1600-1700, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Reinier J. Baarsen, Bart Cornelis, Jan Daniël van Dam
De glorie van de Gouden Eeuw : Nederlandse kunst uit de 17de eeuw : schilderijen, beeldhouwkunst en kunstnijverheid, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Judikje Kiers, Fieke Tissink, p. 104, afb., cat.nr. 64
The glory of the Golden Age : Dutch art of the 17th century : painting, sculpture and decorative art, Judikje Kiers, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Fieke Tissink, p. 104, afb., cat.nr. 64
Rembrandt : a genius and his impact, Albert Blankert, Marleen Blokhuis
Dutch painting 1600-1800, Jakob Rosenberg, Seymour Slive, p. 47-48, 57, 132-133, 251, afb.
Judith Leyster : schilderes in een mannenwereld, p. 365, afb. 41b
Frans Hals, p. 103-108, afb., cat.nr. 43
Frans Hals : das Gesamtwerk, Claus Grimm, afb. 2-7, fig. 66, cat.nr. 70
Frans Hals [ : 1 1989b], Pieter Biesboer, Seymour Slive, p. 103-108, afb., cat.nr. 43
Schutters in Holland : kracht en zenuwen van de stad, Louise E. van den Bergh-Hoogterp, Marijke Carasso-Kok, Koos Levy-van Halm, afb. 91, cat.nr. 194
Hollandse schilders in de Gouden Eeuw, p. 232, afb. 482
Masks of wedlock : seventeenth-century Dutch marriage portraiture, David Ross Smith, p. 92, 109
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 257
Frans Hals [ : 1 1970], Seymour Slive, dl. 1, p. 9, 17, 41-42, 62,136-138, 210; dl. 2, pl. 129, 132-134., cat.nr. 80
Iconographia Batava : beredeneerde lijst van geschilderde en gebeeldhouwde portretten van Noord-Nederlanders in vorige eeuwen, dl. 1, nr. 695; dl. 2, nr. 6214
N. Middelkoop, 'Kruisbestuiving : Schutters- en regentenstukken in Haarlem en Amsterdam', Kunstschrift (2014) nr. 4, p. 29, afb. 29.
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'Rembrandt en de Vaandrigs van de Amsterdamse Schutterij', Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis (1993) nr. 2, p. 18-19, afb.
P. Torresan, 'Per una rvolutazione di Pieter Codde', Antichità viva 14 (1975), p. 12.
I.H. van Eeghen, 'Pieter Codde en Frans Hals', Amstelodamum 61 (1974), p. 138-140, afb.
F. Suzman Jowell, 'Thoré-Bürger and the Revival of Frans Hals', The Art Bulletin 56 (1974), p. 109.
Kunstkronijk (1846), p. 4-12.

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