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Follower of Frans Hals
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Description
- Frans Hals
- Boy Playing a Violin
- oil on panel
Provenance
With Arthur Sulley & Co., London, 1921;
Carl Schoen, New York and Rumson, N.J., by 1923-25;
With John Levey, New York, by 1932-35;
Leo M. Flesch, New York and Piqua, OH, 1939-40;
With Acquavella Galleries, New York, 1945-48;
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by 1950;
By whom given to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1971.
Carl Schoen, New York and Rumson, N.J., by 1923-25;
With John Levey, New York, by 1932-35;
Leo M. Flesch, New York and Piqua, OH, 1939-40;
With Acquavella Galleries, New York, 1945-48;
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by 1950;
By whom given to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1971.
Exhibited
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, Loan Exhibition of Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, January 9-25, 1925, no. 5;
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals, January 10-February 28, 1935, no. 10;
New York, World's Fair, Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800, May-October, 1939, no. 175;
San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, Art: Official Catalogue, 1940, no. 188;
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Frans Hals-Rembrandt, November 18-December 31, 1947, no. 2;
Provincetown, MA, Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Inaugural Exhibition, 1958, no. 28.
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals, January 10-February 28, 1935, no. 10;
New York, World's Fair, Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800, May-October, 1939, no. 175;
San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, Art: Official Catalogue, 1940, no. 188;
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Frans Hals-Rembrandt, November 18-December 31, 1947, no. 2;
Provincetown, MA, Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Inaugural Exhibition, 1958, no. 28.
Literature
Possibly The Connoisseur, XLVI, 1916, p. 100, reproduced p. 101 (no support or dimensions cited, as possibly by Judith Leyster);
W. R. Valentiner, Frans Hals (Klassiker der Kunst), Stuffgart 1921, p. 284, reproduced (as by Frans Hals, circa 1627);
W. R. Valentiner, Frans Hals (Klassiker der Kunst), Stuttgart 1923, p. 60, reproduced (as by Frans Hals, circa 1627);
W. R. Valentiner, Frans Hals Paintings in America, Westport, CT 1936, no. 22, reproduced (as by Frans Hals, circa 1627);
S. Slive, Frans Hals, London 1974, vol. 3, p. 137, no. D24-2 (under "Doubtful and Wrongly Attributed Paintings");
E. C. Montagni, L'Opera completa di Frans Hals, Milan 1974, p. 118, no. 311 (under "Other Works Attributed to Hals");
F. F. Hofrichter, Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age, Doornspijk 1989, p. 57, under no. 31, Variant (A), reproduced pl. 80 (as a copy after the painting in Richmond);
Judith Leyster, A Dutch Master and Her World, exhibition catalogue, Worcester 1993, p. 368, under cat. no. 42, Variant (A) (as a copy after the painting in Richmond).
W. R. Valentiner, Frans Hals (Klassiker der Kunst), Stuffgart 1921, p. 284, reproduced (as by Frans Hals, circa 1627);
W. R. Valentiner, Frans Hals (Klassiker der Kunst), Stuttgart 1923, p. 60, reproduced (as by Frans Hals, circa 1627);
W. R. Valentiner, Frans Hals Paintings in America, Westport, CT 1936, no. 22, reproduced (as by Frans Hals, circa 1627);
S. Slive, Frans Hals, London 1974, vol. 3, p. 137, no. D24-2 (under "Doubtful and Wrongly Attributed Paintings");
E. C. Montagni, L'Opera completa di Frans Hals, Milan 1974, p. 118, no. 311 (under "Other Works Attributed to Hals");
F. F. Hofrichter, Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland's Golden Age, Doornspijk 1989, p. 57, under no. 31, Variant (A), reproduced pl. 80 (as a copy after the painting in Richmond);
Judith Leyster, A Dutch Master and Her World, exhibition catalogue, Worcester 1993, p. 368, under cat. no. 42, Variant (A) (as a copy after the painting in Richmond).
Catalogue Note
When Valentiner published the present painting in the 1920s and 30s (see Literature below), he noted that it might be identifiable with a picture sold in Amsterdam in the Buys sale in 1827. However, that painting was on canvas, and the Chrysler painting is on panel. The Buys painting is more likely idenifiable with another version of the Boy Playing a Violin in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (no. 49.11.32).