Frans Hals

Portrait of a man



Frans Hals - Portrait of a man



Frans Hals
Portrait of a man
c. 1650-52
115 x 84.5 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Widener Collection


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1970-72, nr. 191
Claus Grimm, Frans Hals, Stuttgart, 1989, nr. 135 info

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 89-91
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 349


Exhibitions

1989 Frans Hals, Nr. 71

Provenance

Probably bequeathed by Lord Frederick Campbell (1729-1816) to William Pitt Amherst, 1st earl Amherst of Arracan (1773-1857), Montreal, Sevenoaks, Kent
by inheritance to his son, William Pitt Amherst, 2nd earl Amherst of Arracan (1805-1886)
by inheritance to his son, William Archer Amherst, 3rd earl Amherst of Arracan (1836-1910)
by inheritance to his brother, Hugh Amherst, 4th earl Amherst of Arracan (1856-1927)
with Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, sold 13 January 1911 to Widener
Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
gift 1942 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1942.9.29

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