Portrait of a Woman

Frans Hals Dutch, ca. between 1582 and 1583-1666
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About the Artwork

Portrait of a Woman

1634

Frans Hals

ca. between 1582 and 1583-1666

Dutch

Unknown

Oil on oak panel

Unframed: 28 3/4 × 22 1/8 inches (73 × 56.2 cm) Framed: 38 1/2 × 31 5/8 × 1 7/8 inches (97.8 × 80.3 × 4.8 cm)

Paintings

European Painting

City of Detroit Purchase

23.27

This work is in the public domain.

Markings

Inscribed, upper left, above shoulder: AETA SVAE 34 | AN 1634 | FH [monogram interconnected]

Provenance

Collection Baron Albert von Oppenheim (Cologne, Germany)

March 19, 1918, auction (Lepke, Berlin, Germany) lot 14 [sold for DM 230, 000]

(Goldschmidt Galleries, (New York, New York, USA)

1923-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of the Baron von Oppenheim Collection. Cologne, 1904, no. 13.

Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 3. London, 1920, no. 380.

von Bode, W. and M.J. Binder. Frans Hals, sein Leben und seine Werke. Berlin, 1914, no. 157.

Valentiner, W. R. Frans Hals des Meisters Gemälde. Stuttgart, 1921, p. 118 (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 3, 8 (1922): pp. 80-81 (ill.).

Burroughs, C.H. "Painting by Franz Hals Acquired." Bulletin of the DIA 5, 1 (1923-1924): pp. 2-3 (ill.).

Loan Exhibition of Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1925, no. 7.

Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 92 (ill.).

Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1935, no. 24.

Richardson, E.P. "The Frans Hals Exhibit." Bulletin of the DIA 14, 5 (1934-1935): pp. 50-51 (ill.).

Valentiner, W.R. Frans Hals in America. Westport, 1936, no. 47.

Frans Hals. Exh. cat., Frans Hals Museum. Haarlem, 1937, p. 40, no. 51 (pl. 52).

van Dantzig, M. M. Frans Hals, Echt of Onecht? Amsterdam, 1937, no. 63.

Frans Hals. Exh. cat., Schaeffer Galleries. New York, 1937, no. 10.

Trivas, N. S. The Paintings of Frans Hals. New York, 1941, no. 47 (ill.).

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 57, no. 92.

Loan Exhibition of Paintings by Frans Hals and Rembrandt. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 1947, pp. 17-18, no. 6 (ill.).

Masterpieces of Art. Exh. cat., North Carolina Museum of Art. Raleigh, 2959, p. 102, no. 58 (ill.).

Slive, S. Frans Hals, London, 1970-1974. Vol. 1, p. 119 (fig. 113); Vol. 2 (pl. 159); Vol. 3, p. 57, no. 101.

Grimm, C. Frans Hals Entwicklung. Werkanalyse, Gesamtkatalog. Berlin, 1972, pp. 91, 202, no. 66.

Johannes Cornelisz. Verspronck. Exh. cat., Frans Hals Museum. Haarlem, 1979, p. 131. [as erroneous attribution to Verspronck based on inscriptions on Dayton Art Institute drawings, and cited as by Frans Hals]

Grimm, C. Frans Hals: the Complete Works. New York, 1990, p. 280, no. 69 (ill.).

Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 88-89, no. 33 (ill.).

Keyes, G.S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School." TEFAF Maastricht. 2005, pp. 10-15.

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Portrait of a Woman
Portrait of a Woman