Frans Hals

Possibly two of the three paintings from a “Five Senses” series ("Drie schilderijties van de vijff sinnen door Hals gedaen") in the 10 October 1661 inventory of Willem Schrijver (1608-1661);

Possibly by whom sold, Amsterdam, Petrus Scriverius, 3 August 1663 ("Dry bezondere speelmannetjes");

With Lawrie & Co., London, by 1893;

Charles Tyson Yerkes, Jr. (1837-1905), Chicago and New York, by 1893;

His estate sale, New York, American Art Association, 7 April 1910, lots 121, 122;

Where acquired by Edward Brandus, for $32,200;

John Warne Gates (1855-1911), New York;

Thence by inheritance to his wife, Dellora Baker Gates (1855-1918);

Thence by inheritance to her brother, Edward John Baker (1868-1959), and niece, Dellora Angell Gates (1902-1979), Saint Charles, Illinois, who in 1923 married Lester J. Norris;

Thence by descent in the Angell-Norris collection, Chicago (R.F. Angell, 1923, according to Slive 1974);

By whom anonymously sold ("From a Private Collection"), New York, Christie's, 13 January 1987, lot 141;

Where acquired by Renata and Michal Hornstein, Montreal, 1987;

From whom acquired via private sale, Sotheby's, New York, by Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III, 1999.

Catalogue from the Collection of Charles T. Yerkes, Chicago 1893, cat. nos. 20, 21;

Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of Charles T. Yerkes, Esq., New York, Boston 1904, vol. I, cat. nos. 37, 38;

E.W. Moes, Frans Hals: Sa vie et son œuvre, Brussels 1909, p. 110, cat. nos. 237, 238;

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. III, London 1910, pp. 24, 32, cat. nos. 87, 118;

W. von Bode and M.J. Binder, Frans Hals: Sein Leben und sein Werke, Berlin 1914, vol. I, p. 28, cat. nos. 45, 46;

W.A.P., "The Angell Collection," in Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 17 (1923), p. 51;

W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals, Des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart and Berlin 1921, p. 311, both reproduced p. 66;

W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals. Des Meisters Gemälde, Berlin and Leipzig 1923, p. 311, both reproduced p. 68;

F. Dülberg, Frans Hals, Ein Leben und ein Werk, Stuttgart 1930, p. 110;

W.R. Valentiner, An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals, exhibition catalogue, Detroit 1935, n.p., cat. nos. 11, 12, reproduced (as 1627-1630);

W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: Paintings in America, Westport 1936, p. 10 notes, cat. nos. 23, 24 (as circa 1627-1630);

C. Grimm, Frans Hals, Entwicklung, Werkanalyse, Gesamtkatalog, Berlin 1972, p. 214 (questioning attribution);

C. Grimm, L’opera completa di Frans Hals, Milan 1974, p. 118, cat. nos. 312, 313, reproduced p. 116 (under other works attributed to Frans Hals);

S. Slive, Frans Hals, London 1974, vol. II, reproduced pls. 88, 89; vol. III, p. 33, cat. nos. 53, 54 (as second half of the 1620s);

S. Slive, Frans Hals, exhibition catalogue, London 1989, pp. 202-203, cat. nos. 25, 26, both reproduced (as circa 1625-1630);

C. Grimm, Frans Hals, The Complete Work, New York 1990 (translated from the German edition, Stuttgart and Zurich 1989, where p. 284), p. 291 (in the concordance of attributions, as Circle of Hals);

F.J. Duparc, The Renata and Michal Hornstein Collection, European Old Masters, Montreal 1990, unpublished manuscript, n.p., cat. nos. 47a, 47b;

P.C. Sutton, Dutch and Flemish Seventeenth-Century Paintings, The Harold Samuel Collection, Cambridge 1992, p. 79, reproduced figs. 1, 2;

C. Kortenhorst von Bogendorf-Rupprath, in Judith Leyster, A Dutch Master and Her World, exhibition catalogue, J.A. Welu and P. Biesboer (eds.), Worcester 1993, p. 371, Boy Playing the Violin reproduced fig. 42c (as circa 1626-1630);

W. Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution, New Haven and London 2004, pp. 25-27, Boy Playing a Violin reproduced fig. 14;

F.F. Hofrichter, Judith Leyster 1609 – 1660, exhibition catalogue, Washington, D.C. 2009, n.p., cat. nos. 12, 13;

C.D.M. Atkins, The Signature Style of Frans Hals: Painting, Subjectivity, and the Market in Early Modernity, Amsterdam 2012, pp. 33-36, reproduced figs. 14, 15;

D.P. Weller, Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Hals, and Their Contemporaries, exhibition catalogue, Raleigh 2014, pp. 98-103, cat. no. 15, both reproduced (as circa 1625-1630);

S. Slive, Frans Hals, London 2014, p. 125, reproduced (actual size), pls. 82, 83 (as circa 1626-1630);

A.K. Wheelock, Jr., in With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection, exhibition catalogue, A.K. Wheelock, Jr. (ed.), New York 2021, pp. 46-47, 166-167, cat. no. 8, reproduced (as circa 1625-1630);

J. van der Veen, in Frans Hals, exhibition catalogue, B. Cornelis, F. Lammertse, J.Runnoy-Kan, and J. van der Veen (eds.), London and Amsterdam 2023, p. 38, reproduced pp. 40-41, figs. 12, 13 (as circa 1628);

J. van der Veen, in Frans Hals, Master of the Fleeting Moment, exhibition catalogue, D. Hirschfelder (ed.), Berlin 2024, p. 26, reproduced figs. 5, 6;

C. Grimm, Frans Hals and His Workshop, online catalogue 2024, cat. nos. A3.13, A3.14 (as Workshop of Hals, possibly Judith Leyster, with later corrections by Frans Hals): https://frans-hals-and-his-workshop.rkdstudies.nl/a3-paintings-frans-hals-and-his-workshop-assistants/a310-a318/

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 12 May - 31 October 1933, nos. 61a, 61b (lent by the Angell-Norris Collection);

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1 June - 1 November 1934, nos. 90a, 90b (lent by the Angell-Norris Collection);

Detroit Institute of Arts, Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals, 10 January - 28 February 1935, nos. 11, 12 (lent by the Angell-Norris Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago);

Art Institute of Chicago, long-term loan, 1923 - 1986 (lent by the Angell-Norris Collection); 

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; London, Royal Academy of Arts; Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Frans Hals, 1 October 1989 - 22 July 1990, nos. 25, 26;

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Judith Leyster, 1609-1660, 21 June - 29 November 2009, nos. 12, 13;

Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art; Birmingham Museum of Art, Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Hals, and Their Contemporaries, 12 October 2014 - 26 April 2015, no. 15;

Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Elegance and Wonder: Masterpieces of European Art from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, 20 March 2023 - 30 January 2025, no. 8 (except when on loan to the below);

London, National Gallery; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Frans Hals, 30 September 2023 - 9 June 2024, nos. 12, 13.

Please note these works have been requested for The Rough and the Smooth in 17th-Century Dutch Painting, an exhibition to be held at the Princeton University Art Museum, 11 September 2027 - 9 January 2028.