Laughing Boy

17th century

After Frans Hals Dutch, ca. between 1582 and 1583-1666

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Title Laughing Boy

Artwork Date 17th century

Artist After Frans Hals

Life Dates ca. between 1582 and 1583-1666

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 13 1/4 × 12 1/4 inches (33.7 × 31.1 cm) Framed: 31 3/4 × 20 3/4 × 4 3/8 inches (80.6 × 52.7 × 11.1 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Fisher

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 48.383

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Provenance

collection of Edouard Warneck (Paris, France);
May 27-28, 1926, auction of E. Warneck (Georges Petit, Paris, France), lot 47;
1928, (Howard Young Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
Collection of Mr. & Mrs. William A. Fisher;
1948-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bode, W. von. Studien zur Geschichte der holländischen Malerei. Braunschweig, 1883, p. 85, no. 78 [as unfinished].

Moes, E.W. Frans Hals sa Vie et son Oeuvre. The Hague, 1905, no. 246.

Catalogus de l'Exposition de Maitres hollandais du XVIIe siècle en l'Honneur du Tercentenaire de Rembrandt. Exh. cat.?, Frederik Muller & Co. Amsterdam, 1906, p. 20, cat. 58, (repr.) [lent by M. E. Warneck, Paris].

Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 3. London, 1910, no. 20.

Bode, W. and M. J. Binder. Frans Hals sein Leben und seine Werke. Berlin, 1914, no. 33, pl. 14a.

Valentiner, W. R. Frans Hals des Meisters Gemälde. (KdK). Stuttgart and Berlin, 1921, p. 32; 2nd edition, Berlin & Leipzig, 1923, p. 33.

Art News, vol. 25 (May 1927): p. 50, pl. 5.

Frankfurter, A. M. "Paintings by Frans Hals in the United States," The Antiquarian, vol. 8, no. 2 (1929): p. 86.

Richardson, E. P. "Frans Hals' Laughing Boy," Bulletin of the DIA 29, no. 1 (1949-1950): pp. 12-14, (repr.) p. 13.

Masterpieces of Painting from Detroit Private Collections. Detroit, 1949, no. 15 [as gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Fisher].

Slive, S. Frans Hals, 3 vols. London, Phaidon, 1970-1974; vol. 3, p. 128, cat. D I.I [as copy after a lost painting by Frans Hals].

Keyes, George S., et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 92–93, no. 35 (ill.).

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