Worcester Art Museum · Worchester, Massachusetts · leaf 77
t fora less sure technique and brushwork, this portrait is not dissimilarin colour and conception to certain examples by Frans Hals.The black dress is painted with breadth and simplicity. It hasdepth of colour, and an effective play of light and shade. Theface, hands, and broad lace-trimmed collar… … THE MERRYMAKERSHEXDRIK MAERTEXSZ SORGH 62 HEXDRIK MAERTEXSZ SORC^H Dutch, ca. i6i 1-1670THE MERRVMAKKRS Sorghs Merrymakers is typical of the Dutch seventeenthcentury. The still life, though perfectly subordinated to itsambient, takes on, as in Brouwer, the Ostades, and the EnglishHogarth, an…
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