Frans Hals

Head of a laughing child



Frans Hals - Head of a laughing child



Frans Hals
Head of a laughing child
c. 1620-25
29.5 x 29.5 cm
Oil on panel
Mauritshuis, The Hague


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1970-72, Nr. 29
Claus Grimm, Frans Hals, Stuttgart, 1989, Nr. 19 info

Collection catalogues
Compiled by Quentin Buvelot, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague; Zwolle, 2004, pp. 140-142 info

Literature
Pieter Biesboer und Martina Sitt (Hg.), Von Frans Hals bis Jan Steen, Stuttgart, 2004, fig. 12
Christopher D.M. Atkins, The Signature Style of Frans Hals, [Amsterdam], 2012, fig. 66
Frits Duparc, Uit de doeken, Amsterdam, 2015, pp. 29-36
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 282
Steven Nadler, The portraitist, Chicago; London, 2022, plate 6
Pennen over penselen, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 326-327



Provenance

Albert, Baron von Oppenheim, Cologne, before 1876-1912
Marie-Anne Friedländer-Fuld, Baroness de Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Berlin and Paris, 1918-1968
Mauritshuis, The Hague, purchased 1968
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External links

RKD 208823
Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 1032

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