Frans Hals
Portrait of an Artist
164482.6 x 64.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Hutchinson Colln. Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1970-72, nr. 164
Claus Grimm, Frans Hals, Stuttgart, 1989, nr. 122
Provenance
Presumably Prince Anatole Demidoff, Villa San Donato, near Florence (died 1870)
by descent to his nephew Prince Paul Demidoff (died 1885) and included in the sale of the contents of Villa San Donato, 15 March 1880, nr. 1105, bought in
remained in the Demidoff collection, passing into the possession of Paul Demidoff's widow, Helena Troubetskoi, Pratolino, near Florence
included in the group of 13 paintings from the Demidoff collection sold to trustees of the Art Institute through Durand-Ruel, Paris in 1890
purchase price reimbursed by Charles L. Hutchinson, 1894
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Other works by Frans Hals
Portrait of a Man, probably Pieter Jacobsz. Nachtglas
c. 1634
c. 1634
Portrait of a Man, presumably John Livingston
Portrait of a Man
Portrait of a Woman, possibly Marie Larp
Portrait of a Man