Frans Hals

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1970-72, nr. 167
Claus Grimm, Frans Hals, Stuttgart, 1989, nr. 129

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 83-85
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 346

Provenance

Sir Robert Walpole, 1st earl of Orford (1676-1745), Houghton Hall, Norfolk, by 1736
by inheritance to his son, Robert Walpole, 2nd earl of Orford (1700-1751), Houghton Hall
by inheritance to his son, George Walpole, 3rd earl of Orford (1730-1791), Houghton Hall
sold 1779 through Count Aleksei Semonovich Musin-Pushkin, Russian ambassador to England, to Catherine II, empress of Russia [1729-1796], Saint Petersburg
Imperial Hermitage Gallery, Saint Petersburg
sold February 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 1 May 1937 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 1937.1.71

Other works by Frans Hals

Portrait of a Woman
c. 1650

Portrait of a Man, Possibly a Clergyman
c. 1657-60

Nicolaes Woutersz. van der Meer
1631

Portrait of a woman
c. 1648-50

Portrait of a standing woman
1637