LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

26.50 in. (67.30 cm.) (height) by 21.77 in. (55.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

with indistinct signature 'Hals F.' and 'Hals' (upper left)

Exhibited:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Pictures of everyday life: genre painting in Europe, 1500-1900, October-December 1954, no. 15, illustrated.

Literature:

W. von Bode and M.J. Binder, Frans Hals, sein Leben und seine Werke, Berlin, 1914, no. 15, as ‘Frans Hals’. W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals. Des Meisters Gemälde in 318 Abbildungen. Mit einer Vorrede von Karl Voll, Stuttgart, 1921, p. 61, as ‘Frans Hals’, with incorrect dimensions. W.R. Valentiner, ‘Frans Hals’, Abbildungen mit einer Vorrede von Karl Voll (Klassiker der Kunst), XXVIII, Stuttgart, Berlin and Leipzig, 1923, no. 65 as ‘Frans Hals’. W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals Paintings in America, Westport, 1936, no. 11 as ‘Frans Hals’. G. Gratama, Frans Hals, The Hague, 1943, p. 54, fig. 31, as ‘Frans Hals’. R.H. Hubbard, European Paintings in Canadian Collections: Earlier Schools, Oxford, 1956, p. 150, as ‘Frans Hals’ and ‘perhaps Judith Leyster’. S. Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1974, III, p. 134, no. D17, fig. 131, under ‘doubtful and wrongly attributed paintings’. E.C. Montagni, L’opera completa di Frans Hals, Milan, 1974, pp. 89 and 91, no. 28g, illustrated, as a version of The Rommelpot Player.

Provenance:

(Possibly) Anonymous sale [Baker]; Edward Foster, London, 25 April 1827 (=1st day), lot 8, as ‘F. Hals’ (2 gns. to Wright). Mr. A.R. Severn. Sir Guy Francis Laking, 2nd Bt. (1875-1919), London. Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925), London. M. van Gelder, Belgium. H. van Hochem, Paris and New York. Sir William van Horne (d. 1915), Montreal. with Rob Smeets, Milan, by circa 1991, as ‘Harmen Hals’, where acquired by the present owner in 2007.