Frans Hals

Portrait of a Member of the Haarlem Civic Guard, possibly Jan Jansz. Soop



Frans Hals - Portrait of a Member of the Haarlem Civic Guard, possibly Jan Jansz. Soop



Frans Hals
Portrait of a Member of the Haarlem Civic Guard, possibly Jan Jansz. Soop
c. 1636/38
86 x 69 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1970-72, nr. 125
Claus Grimm, Frans Hals, Stuttgart, 1989, nr. 100 info

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 72-76
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 345

Literature
Jonathan Bikker (ed.), Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2007, p. 172 fig. 105a
Stephanie S. Dickey (ed.), Rembrandt and his circle, Amsterdam, 2017, fig. 1.12, plate 1.12



Provenance

Catherine II, empress of Russia (1729-1796), Saint Petersburg, by 1774
Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg
sold March 1931 through Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, and M. Knoedler & Co., New York to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1937.1.68

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Frans Hals Portrait of Willem Coymans
Portrait of Willem Coymans
1645

Frans Hals Portrait of a Woman
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c. 1635

Frans Hals The laughing cavalier
The laughing cavalier
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Frans Hals Gypsy Girl
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Frans Hals Laughing boy
Laughing boy
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