Portrait of a Man
Artist
Jan Fransz. Hals
Dutch, circa 1620–1654
Date1644
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
Frame: 40 5/8 x 35 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (103.2 x 89.5 x 11.4 cm)
Frame: 40 5/8 x 35 1/4 x 4 1/2 in. (103.2 x 89.5 x 11.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.42
On View
Not on viewW. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 50 (as by Frans Hals), illus (b-w).
Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958 (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1959), cat. no. 62 (as by Frans Hals), illus. (b-w) 111.
Charles W. Stanford, Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 21 (as by Frans Hals), illus. (b-w).
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, Vol. 1 (London: Phaidon Press, 1970), 172, illus: figs. 184, 185, 186 (as Jan Hals).
Jo Allen and Gil Leebrick, eds., Robert Lee Humber: A Collector Creates (exhibition catalogue) (Greenville, NC: The College of Arts and Sciences and The School of Art, East Carolina University, 1996), illus. (color) 34.
Like Father, Like Son? (exhibition brochure) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2000), discussed, including conservation treatment, unnumbered pages, illus. (color) pl. 2, detail of partially cleaned painting (color) pl. 4, detail of signature (b-w), fig. 14, x-radiograph (b-w) fig. 13.
Dennis P. Weller, "Like Father, Like Son? Portraits by Frans and Jan Hals," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (January/February 2000), 9, illus. (b-w).
"Like Father, Like Son? Portraits by Frans Hals and Jan Hals," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (March/April 2000), 7, illus. (b-w).
Dennis P. Weller, "Old Masters in the New World: The Hudson-Fulton Exhibition of 1909 and its Legacy," in Going Dutch: The Dutch Presence in American, 1609-2009, Joyce D. Goodfriend, Benjamin Schmidt, and Annette Stott, eds. (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2008), mentioned 259.
Dennis P. Weller, “Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish Paintings in Raleigh,” Codart (Winter 2009), mentioned 12.
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 20, illus. (color) 85.
David Bellingham, “Attribution and the Market: The Case of Frans Hals,” in Art and Authenticity, Megan Aldrich and Jos Hackforth-Jones, eds. (Surrey: Lund Humphries in association with Sotheby’s Institute of Art, 2012), discussed 31, 36, illus. (color) 32, fig. 8; x-ray image 33, fig. 9; detail of inscription 31, fig. 7.
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, 2nd ed. (London: Phaidon, 2014), briefly discussed 261, illus. (color) fig. 154, also detail (color) and inscription, fig. 155.
Dennis P. Weller, Frans Hals in America: Collectors, Scholars, and Connoisseurs (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022), 81, 83, 93, illus. (color), fig. 3-6.
Claus Grimm, Frans Hals and his workshop, Part II: Catalogue (RKD Studies: The Hague 2023-2024), no. A4.3.12, illus. (color), [https://frans-hals-and-his-workshop.rkdstudies.nl/contents/] (accessed July 9, 2024).
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Masterpieces of Art: In Memory of William R. Valentiner, 1880-1958," April 6-May 17, 1959, cat. no. 62 (as by Frans Hals), illus. (b-w).
Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, "Masterpieces from the North Carolina Museum of Art," March 11-April 13, 1975.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25-February 15, 1987.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Face to Face with the Dutch Golden Age," December 20, 1995-May 26, 1996.
Greenville, NC, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University "Robert Lee Humber: A Collector Creates," November 1-23, 1996, illus. (color) 34.
Hickory, NC, The Hickory Museum of Art, "Beyond Likeness: Contemporary Considerations of the Portrait," November 1-December 31, 1997; Wilmington, NC, St. John's Museum of Art, April 30-June 28, 1998; Fayetteville, NC, Fayetteville Museum of Art, July 11-August 30, 1998; Asheville, NC, Asheville Art Museum, September 17, 1998-January 2, 1999; Greenville, NC, Greenville Museum of Art, January 14-February 28, 1999, brochure.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Like Father, Like Son? Portraits by Frans Hals and Jan Hals," February 12-May 7, 2000, discussed, including conservation treatment, unnumbered pages, illus. (color) pl. 2, detail of partially cleaned painting (color) pl. 4, detail of signature (b-w), fig. 14, x-radiograph (b-w) fig. 13.
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