Frans Hals (I) and Pieter Codde

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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (landscape format) 209 x 429 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

dated center right: Aº 1637

Current attribution: Frans Hals (I)
: and Pieter Codde
In 1633 Frans Hals was commissioned to paint the militia piece. When it was not yet finished in 1636 Pieter Codde was requested to finalize the painting. Frans Hals painted most of the officers at the left side of the painting, Codde those on the right side (Slive/Biesboer et al. 1989, no. 43).

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: dated 1637 (1633 - 1637)

c. 1633 Frans Hals started with the work on this painting, which was finished (and dated) by Pieter Codde in 1637 (Slive/Biesboer et al. 1989, p. 391).

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Schutters van wijk XI onder leiding van kapitein Reynier Reael (1588-1648) en luitenant Cornelis Michielsz. Blaeuw
Other (former) title Other title(s) or name(s) which the work of art has had, or by which it is also known. This sometimes involves rejected identifications of the subject or sitter.: De magere compagnie , The Meagre Company
English title: Militia Company of District XI under the Command of Captain Reynier Reael (1588-1648) and lieutenant Cornelis Michielsz Blaeuw
Genre: portrait
Keywords: militia piece (painting), group portrait more than 10 people, full-length portrait, officer, standard-bearer, weapon (fight), sashe, flat lace collar, ruff, flat collar, hat, moustache, goatee, beard, hand on side

Represented

IB number Number related to the portrait iconography collection RKD.: 36032

Reynier Reael 1588 - 1648-04-17

Name

Reael, Reynier

Date/place of birth

1588

Date/place of death

1648-04-17

Occupation

Koopman te Amsterdam; kapitein Voetboogdoelen Amsterdam

Marriage(s)

1614-09-14
Maria Oetgens

Notes

seated man at the left, with hat

Cornelis Blaeuw

Name

waarschijnlijk Blaeuw, Cornelis

Sex

Date/place of birth

Amsterdam (stad)

Baptized

Date/place of death

Amsterdam (stad)

Buried

1638-07-15

Occupation

Koopman te Amsterdam, luitenant Voetboogdoelen Amsterdam

Marriage(s)

1619-11-09
Weyntge Oetgens

Notes

seated man at the right, with lance

Nicolaas van Bambeeck 1596-05-17 - 1661-08

Name

Bambeeck, Nicolaas van

Initials

Sex

Date/place of birth

Leiden (stad) 1596-05-17

Date/place of death

Amsterdam (stad) 1661-08 - 1661-08-30

Buried

1661-08-30

Occupation

handelaar in Spaanse wol te Amsterdam. Hoofd-Ingeland van de Beemster

Marriage(s)

Amsterdam (stad) 1638-04-27
133226/Bas, Agatha

Notes

standard-bearer at the left

Pieter Ranst 1590 - ?

Name

Ranst, Pieter

Initials

Sex

Date/place of birth

1590

Date/place of death

Amsterdam (stad)

Buried

1641-05-14

Occupation

Koopman op Rusland

Marriage(s)

Amsterdam (stad) 1621-01-26
Rebecca Carel

Jean Pellicorne 1597 - ?

Name

Pellicorne, Jean

Sex

Date/place of birth

Leiden (stad) 1597

Occupation

koopman te Amsterdam onder de firma Pieter van Ceulen en Jean Pellicorne

Marriage(s)

Amsterdam (stad) 1626-02-17
122781/Collen, Susanna van
Rotterdam (stad) 1639-10-05
Geertruyd van Luffelen

Identification based on: provenance, inscription, comparison (Rembrandt, Portrait of Nicolaes van Bambeeck, dated 1641, images no. 32172)

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

used as model for
Barthélemy Menn
black chalk drawing, 125 x 260 mm, in sale Luzern (Fischer), 2013-06-12/13, no. 140, as after B. van der Helst

Provenance

Collection(s)

Voetboogdoelen (Amsterdam), Amsterdam
1637 - 1758 Commissioned in 1633 by the sitters for the Voetboogdoelen (headquarters of the crossbowmen’s civic guard). Signed 1637. First mentioned in the Voetboogdoelen in 1653 by Gerrit Schaep in his 'Memorie ende Lijste van de publieke Schilderijen op de 3 Doelens bewaert wordende: soo als Ick die gevonden hebbe, na mijn wederkomste tot Aemsteldam in Februarij 1653' (Schaep 1653, p. 134, no. 23; website Rijksmuseum, accessed 2021-09-17).
City of Amsterdam, Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr SA 7321
1758 - transferred to the Great Council of War Chamber in the town hall by 1758 (Van Dyk 1758, p. 30, no. 20)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr SK-C-374
1885 - on loan from the city of Amsterdam

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Frans Hals : exhibition on the occasion of the centenary of the Municipal Museum at Haarlem : 1862-1962 Frans Halsmuseum , Haarlem (city) , 1962-06-16 - 1962-09-30 , cat. no. 37
Schutters in Holland : kracht en zenuwen van de stad Frans Halsmuseum , Haarlem (city) , 1988 - 1989 , cat. no. 194
Frans Hals [Washington 1989] National Gallery of Art [Washington] , Washington (D.C.) , 1989-10-01 - 1989-12-31 , cat. no. 43
Frans Hals [Washington 1989] Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1990-01-13 - 1990-04-08 , cat. no. 43
Frans Hals [Washington 1989] Frans Halsmuseum , Haarlem (city) , 1990-05-11 - 1990-07-22 , cat. no. 43
De glorie van de Gouden Eeuw : Nederlandse kunst uit de 17de eeuw : schilderijen, beeldhouwkunst en kunstnijverheid Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 2000-04-15 - 2000-09-17 , cat. no. 64
Dutch portraits : the age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals National Gallery [London] , London (England) , 2007-06-27 - 2007-09-16 , cat. no. 21

Literature

Van Dyk 1758 , p. 30-33, no. 20
Moes 1897-1905 , vol. 1 (1897), no. 695
Moes 1897-1905 , vol. 2 (1905), no. 6214
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 3 (1910), no. 428
Valentiner 1923C , p. 119
Haarlem 1962A , no. 37
Slive 1970-1974 , vol. 1 (1970), p. 9, 17, 41-42, 62, 136-138, 210; vol. 3 (1974), no. 80
Grimm/Montagni 1974 , no. 98
Van Thiel et al. 1976 , p. 257, no. C 374
Schwartz 1985 , p. 216-217
Carasso-Kok et al. 1988 , p. 381-383, 392, no. 194
Grimm 1989A , no. 70, p. 72, 81-84
Slive/Biesboer et al. 1989 , no. 43, p. 55-56, 103-108, 252-257
Köhler/Levy-van Halm 1990 , p. 34-37
Kiers et al. 2000 , no. 64
Dudok van Heel 2006 , p. 116
Bikker/Bruijnen/Wuestman 2007 , p. 180-182, no. 112
Ekkart/Buvelot/De Winkel 2007 , no. 21
Liedtke 2007 , p. 655-661
Middelkoop/Reichwein/Van Gent 2008 , p. 120-123, no. 21
Dickey 2017A , p. 18-43
Middelkoop 2019 , p. 84, 113-115, 218, 799

I.H. van Eeghen, 'Pieter Codde en Frans Hals', in: Maandblad Amstelodamum 61 (1974), p. 137-140
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'Rembrandt en de Vaandrigs van de Amsterdamse Schutterij', Kroniek van het Rembrandthuis (1993) no. 2, p. 18-19
J. Bikker, 'Reeksen van militairen ontrafeld', in: Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 54 (2006), p. 422
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, Rembrandt en Hals in de werkplaats van Hendrick Uylenburg, 2012, p. 1 (unpublished manuscript)
S.A.C. Dudok van Heel, 'De identificatie van twee portretten van Frans Hals in ere hersteld', in: Maandblad Amstelodamum 102 (2015), p. 145
to be published in RKD Study: Claus Grimm, ‘Frans Hals and his workshop’, 2023, no. A2.11

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001690116)
BD/RKD/1818 - IB/XVIIB on REAEL (img.nr. IB00036032)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1000314397)
, Original location BD/RKD/0606 - ONS/Portraits I (img.nr. 0000020698)
, Original location BD/RKD/0606 - ONS/Portraits I (img.nr. 0000022544)
, Original location BD/RKD/0606 - ONS/Portraits I (img.nr. 0000022542)

Project: RKD Study: Claus Grimm, Frans Hals and his workshop
Dutch Public Collections Project

Technical documentation

The RKD manages a collection of technical documentation that has been given to us by external researchers and museums or which stems from the RKD's own research with infrared reflectography. Documentation can be accessed by appointment at the RKD. While not all technical documentation has been entered in the database at present, new data is added on a regular basis.

2 hits in RKD technical, relating to:

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Research and restoration projects

conservation, 1988 2 hitsinvolved_persons: Manja Zeldenrust; Martin Bijl
Slive/Biesboer et al. 1989, p. 103-108

External links: website Rijksmuseum
website stad Amsterdam

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Creation date: 1998-08-11; Last modified date: 2023-03-31

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