Frans Hals

Two Singing Boys



Frans Hals - Two Singing Boys



Frans Hals
Two Singing Boys
c. 1627
66.8 x 52.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Moes 224
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1970-72, nr. 23
Claus Grimm, Frans Hals, Stuttgart, 1989, nr. 38 info

Collection catalogues
Bernhard Schnackenburg, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Mainz, 1996, pp. 138-139 info

Literature
Pieter Biesboer und Martina Sitt (Hg.), Von Frans Hals bis Jan Steen, Stuttgart, 2004, fig. 1



Provenance

With Jacques Triebel (Trible), Berlin
from whom acquired by William VIII, landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1682-1760) around 1751
princely collections, Kassel
seized by the French in 1806 and taken to the Musée Napoleon, Paris
restituted in 1815
transferred to state control in 1866
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External links

RKD 198505
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister Kassel Accession number GK 215 (German)

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