After Frans Hals
Portrait of Frans Hals, bust-length, in a black hat
with monogram 'FH' (centre left)
oil on panel
11 x 9 in. (27.8 x 22.8 cm.)
After Frans Hals
Portrait of Frans Hals, bust-length, in a black hat
with monogram 'FH' (centre left)
oil on panel
11 x 9 in. (27.8 x 22.8 cm.)
Lieutenant General P.M. de G… (according to a label on the reverse). Mrs Louise Havemeyer (1855-1929), New York, and by descent to her son, Horace Havemeyer (1886-1956), New York, by whom gifted in 1934 to the following, The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 London 1997, lot 38.
H.O. Havemeyer Collection: Catalogue of Paintings, Prints, Sculptures and Objects of Art, Portland ME, 1931, p. 305, as 'School of Hals' N.S. Trivas, The Paintings of Frans Hals, London, 1941, p. 61, appendix 7, pl. 158, as 'a copy'. Frans Hals: Exhibition On The Occasion Of The Centenary Of The Municipal Museum At Haarlem 1862-1962, exhibition catalogue, Haarlem, 1962, p. 68, under no, 58. S. Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1970, I, pp. 13-14, no. 163; 1974, III, 1974, p. 124, no. L 15-7, as a copy or variant after the lost original. C. Grimm & E.C. Montagni, L'Opera Completa di Frans Hals, Milan, 1974, p. 107, no. 184, as 'a good copy'. A. Cooney Frelinghuysen & G. Tinterow et al., Splendid Legacy of the Havemeyer Collection, New York, 1993, p. 349, no. 321, as 'a copy'.
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