Frans Hals

Young Man with Skull (Vanitas)



Frans Hals - Young Man with Skull (Vanitas)



Frans Hals
Young Man with Skull (Vanitas)
c. 1626-28
92.2 x 80.8 cm
Oil on canvas
The National Gallery, London


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 102
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1970-72, nr. 61
Claus Grimm, Frans Hals, Stuttgart, 1989, nr. 34 info

Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 160-161, plate 142
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 299

Literature
Pieter Biesboer und Martina Sitt (Hg.), Von Frans Hals bis Jan Steen, Stuttgart, 2004, fig. 14
Steven Nadler, The portraitist, Chicago; London, 2022, fig. 20


Exhibitions

2008 De Gouden Eeuw begint in Haarlem, Nr. 94
1989 Frans Hals, Nr. 29
1976 Art in 17th-century Holland, Nr. 49

Provenance

according to the Elton Hall catalogue purchased for Sir James Stuart, Bart., by the painter Andrew Geddes
passed to his daughter, Mrs Woodcock, 1849
passed to her son, the Revd E. Woodcock, 1875
inherited by his sister, Mrs Stuart Johnson, 1893
purchased from her by the 5th Earl of Carysfort, Glenhart Castle, Ireland, in 1895 through Messrs Lawrie, London
by descent to Sir Richard Proby, Bart., MC
National Gallery, London, purchased from the Trustees of the Elton Heirloom Settlement under private treaty sale arrangements, 1980
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External links

RKD 198831
National Gallery, London Accession number NG6458

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