Frans Hals
Portrait of a Young Man
1646/4868 x 55.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed center right with double monogram: FHFH
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
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
Other works by Frans Hals
Portrait of a standing man
1637
1637
Portrait of a Man
Nicolaes Woutersz. van der Meer
1631
1631
Portrait of a Woman
c. 1650
c. 1650
Portrait of a standing woman
1637
1637