Frans Hals
Portrait of a man
c. 1660-6685.8 x 66.9 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: F H (monogram)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1970-72, nr. 220
Claus Grimm, Frans Hals, Stuttgart, 1989 as Workshop of Frans Hals
Literature
Christopher D.M. Atkins, The Signature Style of Frans Hals, [Amsterdam], 2012, fig. 75 (as Frans Hals)
Steven Nadler, The portraitist, Chicago; London, 2022, fig. 59
Provenance
by 1873, Dr. Max Strauss, Vienna
by 1917, sold by Strauss to Dr. Leon Lilienfeld (born 1869 - died 1938), Vienna
1938, by inheritance to his widow, Antonie Schulz Lilienfeld (born 1876 - died 1972), Vienna and Gstaad, Switzerland but prevented from export and remained in the custody of Emerich Hunna, Vienna
1941, pawned by Hunna to the Dorotheum, Vienna
21 March 1944, transferred to Alt Aussee, Austria
1946, collected by Allies and released to the United States Forces in Austria
1948, restituted to Antonie Lilienfeld, Winchester, MA
1966, gift of Mrs. Lilienfeld to the MFA, accession date 14 December 1966
Other works by Frans Hals
Family Portrait in a Landscape
c. 1620-28
c. 1620-28
Portrait of a sitting man
c. 1645
c. 1645
Stephanus Geraerdts
c. 1650-52
c. 1650-52
Claes Duyst van Voorhout
c. 1638
c. 1638
Family in a landscape
c. 1648
c. 1648