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
 1 

External links

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

Other works by Frans Hals


Frans Hals Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Civic Guard
Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Civic Guard
1627

Frans Hals Isaac Abrahamsz. Massa
Isaac Abrahamsz. Massa
1626

Frans Hals Portrait of a family
Portrait of a family
c. 1635

Attributed to Frans Hals Fisherman playing the violin
Fisherman playing the violin

Frans Hals Portrait of a man with a large hat
Portrait of a man with a large hat
c. 1660-66