The Rommelpot player (Q1196537)
Label from: English (en)
genre:
genre art (Q1047337)
artist:
Frans Hals (Q167654)
collection:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
Cook collection (Q74149551)
location:
Kimbell Art Museum (Q1741629)
Doughty House (Q5301115)
location of final assembly:
Haarlem (Q9920)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
RKDimages ID:
198344
Google Arts & Culture asset ID:
4wGK198ePqy_XQ
catalog URL: https://www.kimbellart.org/collection-object/rommel-pot-player
information from the Kimbell Art Museum catalog
description: The smiling rommel-pot player in this painting by Frans Hals has gathered around him an audience of amused children offering him coins. The children delight in the appalling sounds emitted by this lowly instrument, which is made of a pig’s bladder stretched over an earthenware jug half-filled with water. A reed is bound in a small pocket in the middle of the bladder and moved up and down to produce a rumbling sound. Played by impoverished street musicians, rommel pots were particularly associated with the pre-Lenten celebration of Shrovetide, here indicated by the fool’s foxtail worn by the man.
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