LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on copper

Measurements:

6.38 in. (16.20 cm.) (height) by 4.84 in. (12.30 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

dated 'ANo 163..', c.r.; inscribed 'AETAT 40', c.r.

Exhibited:

Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings by Rembrandt and the Great Dutch Painters of the XVII Century, 1906, no. 5 (p. 5 in the catalog); New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hudson-Fulton Celebration Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters, 1909, no. 25 (vol. I in the catalog, where reproduced); Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Masterpieces of the Dutch Golden Age, 1985, no. 29; New York, National Academy of Design, Dutch and Flemish Paintings from New York Private Collections, 1988, no. 24; Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1 October - 31 December 1989, London, Royal Academy of Arts, 13 January - 8 April 1990, Haarlem, Frans Halsmuseum, 11 May - 22 July 1990, Frans Hals, no. 40; Maastricht, TEFAF, March 1996; Phoenix Art Museum, 19 December 1998-28 February 1999, Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 28 March-14 June 1999, The Hague, Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, 26 June-22 August 1999, Copper as Canvas, no. 25.

Literature:

E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava, Amsterdam 1897-1905, no. 149-1; M. Conway, "Sir William van Hoorne's Collection at Montreal", in The Connoisseur, vol. XII, 1905, p. 140, reproduced p. 137; E.W. Moes, Frans Hals, sa vie et son oeuvre, trans. J. de Boschere, Brussels 1909, no. 12 (as dated 1630); C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., vol. III, London 1910, pp. 48-9, no. 151 (as dated 1630); W. von Bode & M.J. Binder, Frans Hals. His Life and Work, (trans. M.W. Brockwell), Berlin 1914, p. 128 (as dated 1630); W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals. Des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst), Berlin & Leipzig 1923, pp. 82 and 312, reproduced p. 82 (as dated 1630); W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals Paintings in America, Westport (Conn.) 1936, p. 43 (as dated 1630); R.H. Hubbard, European Paintings in Canadian collections: Earlier Schools, Toronto 1956, p. 151; S. Slive, Frans Hals, vol. 1, New York & London 1970, pp. 5-7, 125 and 140; vol. 3, Catalog, New York & London 1974, p. 7 (under no. 8) and p. 46, no. 76, reproduced vol. 2, plate 139; C. Grimm, Frans Hals: Entwicklung, Werkanalyse, Gesamtkatalog, Berlin 1972, no. A18b (as a copy, dated 1630); C. Grimm & E.C. Montagni, L'opera completa di Frans Hals, Milan 1974, pp. 95-6, no. 73 (as perhaps done in Hals' studio, with final touches by the artist, and as dated 1630); also the French ed.: Tout l'oeuvre peint de Frans Hals, Paris 1976 (trans. S. Darses), no. 73; et. al.

Provenance:

Richard, 2nd Earl of Cloncarty, Garbally, Co. Galway, probably acquired while he was Ambassador in Brussels and The Hague from 1813 to 1823 and said to have been purchased at Van Eyk's Sale at the Hague in 1820; Thence by descent until sold, London, Christie's 12 March 1892, lot 32, for 700 Guineas to Lesser, who sold it to Wallace; Sir William C. Horne, Montreal, by 1905; Miss L. Adaline van Hoorne, Montreal; With Edward Speelman, London, 1966; From whom acquired by Lord Harold Samuel, Wych Cross; With Edward Speelman, London, 1975; Private Collection, New York; With Bob Haboldt, New York, from whom acquired by the present owner on 12th March 1996.