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Merrymakers at Shrovetide
Frans Hals

Merrymakers at Shrovetide

1610Metropolitan Museum of Art; Benjamin Altman · New York City

Shrovetide Revellers, also known as Merrymakers at Shrovetide, is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in around 1616–17. It is one of the earliest surviving works by Hals, and has been held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City since 1913. The painting shows people festivities at Shrovetide (Dutch: Carnaval), an annual carnival of food and jollity which takes place before the Christian fasting season of Lent.

Subject
party, egg as food, man, bagpipe, bread, food, woman, happiness

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