LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

32.64 in. (82.90 cm.) (height) by 26.97 in. (68.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Arnhem Museum,. Dutch Masters of the 17th Century, April 1934;. The Hague, Royal Gallery Kleykamp, August 1934;. Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, November 1934, no. 8;. The Detroit Institute of Art,. An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals, 10. January - 28 February 1935, no. 27;. Northampton, Massachussetts, Smith College Museum of Art, February 1935 (according to a label on the reverse);. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 1936, no. 68 (according to a label on the reverse);. New York, Schaeffer Galleries, . Frans Hals , 9-23 November 1937, no. 16;. Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum,. Frans Hals Tentoonstelling , 1 July - 30 September 1937, no. 83;. New York World's Fair,. Masterpieces of Art , May - October 1939, no. 180;. New York, Duveen Brothers Inc.,. Paintings by the great Dutch masters of the seventeenth century: loan exhibition in aid of the Queen Wilhelmina fund and the American women's voluntary services , 8 October - 7 November 1942, no. 17 (as Frans Hals, as with all of the above

Literature:

T. Borenius, "A New Frans Hals," . The Burlington Magazine , vol. 61, December 1932, pp. 245-6, reproduced (as Frans Hals);. W.R. Valentiner, . An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals , exhibition catalogue, Detroit 1935, cat. no. 27 (as Frans Hals);. G.D. Gratama, . Frans Hals Tentoonstelling Oude Kunst , exhibition catalogue, Haarlem 1937, cat. no. 83, reproduced fig. 84 (as Frans Hals); . . The Art Digest , 1 March 1937, p. 15, reproduced on the cover (as Frans Hals);. J. Klein, "Franz Hals Show Called Complete," . The New York Post , 13 November 1937, p. 15, reproduced (as Frans Hals);. G.H. McCall and W.R. Valentiner, ed., . Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800 , exhibition catalogue, New York 1939, p. 87, cat. no. 180, reproduced pl. 66 (as Frans Hals);. A. Chatelet and E.C. Montagni, . Tout l'oeuvre peint de Frans Hals , 1976, cat. no. 336, reproduced (as Frans Hals);. S. Slive, . Frans Hals, New York 1970, vol. I pp. 144-5, 200, vol. II reproduced pl. 118, vol. III p. 44-45, cat. no. 74 (as Frans Hals);. C. Grimm, . Frans Hals: The Complete Work , New York 1990, p. 291 (as Master of the Fisherboy);. R.W. Unger, . A History of Brewing in Holland , Leiden 2001, p. 307, cat. no. 30, reproduced (as Frans Hals

Provenance:

Private collection, County Louth, Ireland;. Miss Vera Bellingham, England;. By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 9 June 1932, lot 82;. Where acquired by Asscher & Welker, London;. With D. Katz, Dieren, Holland, by 1933;. With Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York;. There acquired by Henry Reichhold, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, by March 1937;. By descent to his wife Ilse Breuer Reichold;. By whom given to the Portland Museum of Art, 1983 (inv. no. 1983.158