File:Frans Hals - the violinist.jpg

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Summary

Frans Hals: The violinist

Artist



Alternative names	Frans Franchoisz Hals
Description	Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death	1582 or 1583 date QS:P,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1583-00-00T00:00:00Z/9	26 August 1666
Location of birth/death	Antwerp	Haarlem
Work period	between circa 1603 and circa 1666 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1603-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1666-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Haarlem (1608–1616); Antwerp (1616–1616); Haarlem (1617–1666)
Authority file	: Q167654 VIAF: 100165653 ISNI: 000000011453225X ULAN: 500027794 LCCN: n78091972 NLA: 35164870 WorldCat

Title

The violinist

Object type

painting

Genre

genre art

Date

circa 1625

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

93 × 93 cm (36.6 × 36.6 in)

Collection

Private collection

Object history

Thomas Turton (1780-1864), Bishop of Ely, from whom acquired by the father of P. Bowyer Nichols, 1860.
with Thomas Agnew, London, 1944, from whom acquired by the family of the present owner

Exhibition history

London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., The Seventeenth Century: Pictures by European Masters, June-July 1960, no. 36, as Frans Hals.

Inscriptions

Monogram center right:

FH

References

Source/Photographer

Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5339058 (sale 7862, lot 19, London, 6 July 2010)

This image is available from the Netherlands Institute for Art History
under digital ID 214763.

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