# A Banquet [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HALS, Dirck]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on wood, 41 x 66 ## Commentary This signed and dated painting is typical of Dirck Hals in execution, and may be described as a routine effort derived in good part from a much better work by the artist. Most figures seated at the table are adopted from the more multifigure <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/h/hals/dirk/fetecham.html'\)" href="/html/h/hals/dirk/fetecham.html">Garden Party</a> of 1627, but Hals gave the figures a different stage. Hals was exceptional among Haarlem and Amsterdam genre painters of his generation for the frequency with which he defined interior spaces with the help of tiled floors \(which were almost unknown at this date in Dutch houses\). ## Related artworks - [A Garden Party]() - [A Merry Company Making Music]() - [Amusing Party in the Open Air \(detail\)]() - [An Elegant Company Playing Music]() - [Banquet Scene in a Renaissance Hall]() - [Children Playing Cards]() - [Children with a Cat]() - [Elegant Company in an Interior]() - [Interior Scene \(detail\)]() - [Interior Scene \(detail\)]() - [Interior Scene \(detail\)]() - [Interior Scene]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()