Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart

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Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart
Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart, c.1623. Oil on canvas, 105 x 79 cm
ArtistFrans Hals
Year1623 (1623)
CatalogueSeymour Slive, Catalog 1974: #20
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions105 cm × 79 cm (41 in × 31 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913, New York City
Accession14.40.602
WebsiteMET online

Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart is an oil-on-canvas painting by the

Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1623 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
. The painting has also been titled as Young Man and Woman in an Inn or Portrait of Pieter Ramp.

Painting

The painting shows the face of a smiling woman leaning up against a young cavalier who is holding a flask above his head as if he has just taken it from her, apparently as part of a joke. With his left hand, the young cavalier is holding the head of a dog. The couple stand before a partially open curtain which shows a room beyond with a smiling man carrying a dish and a burning fireplace behind him.

Name

The painting was for a long time considered to be a portrait of a young ensign of the

Prodigal son.[3] In the same year that Slive was writing, Claus Grimm rejected the attribution of this painting to Frans Hals, though he conceded it was probably after a painting by Hals, calling it a copy of a lost original.[4]

Hals' positioning of the two figures with a major figure accompanied by "an accomplice" was common to many of his paintings of the 1620s:

  • The Smoker, with an accomplice on the left and another in the background on the right
    The Smoker, with an accomplice on the left and another in the background on the right
  • Two Boys singing, with an accomplice on the left
    Two Boys singing
    , with an accomplice on the left
  • Two laughing boys with mug of beer, with an accomplice on the right
    Two laughing boys with mug of beer
    , with an accomplice on the right
  • The evangelist Matthew and the angel, with an accomplice on the left
    The evangelist Matthew and the angel
    , with an accomplice on the left

See also

References

  1. ^ Hofstede de Groot on Junker Ramp and his girl; catalog numbers 139 and 140
  2. ISBN 3791310321
  3. ^ Slive, 1989 catalog entries 22 & 22, Jonker Ramp en zijn liefje, page 197
  4. ^ Entry "k4" in Frans Hals : het gehele oeuvre, by Claus Grimm, Amsterdam, Meulenhoff/Landshoff, 1990
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