ID: 700009628 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700009628	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Malle Babbe (painting (visual work); Frans Hals (1582/83-1666); 1633/1635; Gemäldegalerie (Berlin, Berlin state, Germany); Ident.Nr. 801C;)

Note: Hals was renowned as one of the great portrait painters in Haarlem at this time, painting portraits of clients but also also painting common people as portraits. In this portrait-like genre scene, the artist paints with the immediacy of a sketch a folk figure, who is both witch (symbolized by the owl) and "villiage idiot."

Titles:

Malle Babbe (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,P,Dutch-P,U,P)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1633/1635

Creator Display:

Frans Hals (1582/83-1666) [preferred]

painter Hals, Frans (Dutch painter, ca. 1581-1666) [500027794]

Locations:

Current: Gemäldegalerie (Berlin, Berlin state, Germany) [500125802] National Museums in Berlin, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: Ident.Nr. 801C

Other: Creation: Haarlem [7007048] North Holland (province), Netherlands (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Leinwand

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 78,5 x 66,2 cm

Cultures:

Dutch (preferred)

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

portraits

Specific Subjects:

	half-length figures [300047469]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, figures (representations), <figures by portion represented>) (AAT)

	owl (bird) [300310290]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Aves (class)) (AAT)

	tankard [300043256]
	.....(Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by function or context>, culinary containers, <containers for serving and consuming food>, <vessels for serving and consuming food>, drinking vessels) (AAT)

	witch [300252827]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the occult sciences>) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Additional Notes:

German ..... Herstellungsort: Haarlem (Stadt); Die auf der Schulter von der „Malle Babbe“ sitzende Eule darf wohl als Symbol der Trunksucht gelesen werden und auf die zeitgenössische Redewendung »zoo beschonken als een uil« (so betrunken wie eine Eule) anspielen. Als Personifizierung eines vergleichbar verurteilenswerten Lasters – dem Rauchen - wurde die „Malle Babbe“ auch auf dem Berliner Bild „Wie die Alten sungen, so pfeifen die Jungen“ von Jan Steen aufgenommen (Kat.Nr. 795D).

Sources and Contributors:
Malle Babbe	........ [VP]
	........ Janson, History of Art (1971) fig. 632
	........ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin [online] (2000-) http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultLightboxView/result.t1.collection_lightbox.$TspTitleImageLink.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SfieldValue&sp=0&sp=0&sp=3&sp=Slightbox_3x4&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=T&sp=1

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Staatliche Museen zu Berlin [online] (2000-)

....................... Janson, History of Art (1971)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Janson, History of Art (1971) 424 ff.
German	..... [VP]
	..... Staatliche Museen zu Berlin [online] (2000-)