A Fisherboy
ArtistImitator of
Frans Hals
Dutch, 1582/83–1666
Datecirca 1635–1645 (or later)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions32 5/16 x 25 15/16 in. (82.1 x 65.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Object numberGL.60.17.67
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesC[ornelis] Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century (based on the work of John Smith), Vol. 3 (London: Macmillan and Co., 1910), cat. no. 58a.
Christie, Manson and Woods, Catalog of pictures by old masters the property of ADS de Vahl, esq. Decease: late of 97 Lancaster Gate W. Also Early British portrait and works by old masters from other sources (London, February 20, 1920), 20, lot 135.
W[ilhelm] R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: Des Meisters Gemälde, 2nd rev. ed., Klassiker der Kunst, Vol. 28 (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1923), cat. no. 135, illus.
An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals: Seventeenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters (exhibition catalogue) (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1935), cat. no. 31, illus.
W. R. Valentiner, Frans Hals Paintings in America (Westport: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1936) cat. no. 54, illus. unnumbered page.
Frans Hals Tentoonstelling (exhibition catalogue) (Haarlem: Frans Hals Museum, 1937), cat. no. 64, illus.
Paintings by Frans Hals (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., 1937), cat. no. 15.
M. M. van Dantzig, Frans Hals: echt of onecht (Amsterdam, 1937), cat. no. 64.
Alfred M. Frankfurter, "An Indianapolis Show: Masters of the Netherlands," Art News 35, no. 23 (March 6, 1937), 13.
Masterworks of Five Centuries (exhibition catalogue) (San Francisco: 1939), cat. no. 81.
"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 58.
The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960, 1965), 136, illus. (b-w) 137 (as by Frans Hals).
Charles W. Stanford, Masterpieces in the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1966), no. 22, illus. (b-w).
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, Vol. 3 (New York: Phaidon Press, 1974), cat. no. D-10, illus. fig. 123.
Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian (Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1977), 133-34, illus. fig. 121.
Steven Litt, "Art Museum's Dutch Treat," Raleigh: The News and Observer (October 26, 1986), mentioned 1E.
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. 19, illus. (color) 81, also mentioned xii.
Dennis P. Weller, Frans Hals in America: Collectors, Scholars, and Connoisseurs (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022), 93, 95, illus. (color), fig. 3-17, as Follower of/imitator of Frans Hals.
Claus Grimm, Frans Hals and his workshop Part II: Catalogue (RKD Studies: The Hague 2023-2024), no. A4.2.27, illus. (color), as Workshop of Frans Hals [https://frans-hals-and-his-workshop.rkdstudies.nl/contents/] (accessed July 9, 2024).Exhibition HistoryDetroit, MI, The Detroit Institute of Art, "An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by
Frans Hals: Seventeenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters," January 10-February 28, 1935, cat. no. 31, illus.
Indianapolis, IN, John Herron Art Museum, "Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century," February 27- April 11, 1937, cat. no. 23.
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, "Frans Hals Tentoonstelling," July 1-September 30, 1937, cat. no. 64, illus.
New York, NY, Schaeffer Galleries, "Paintings by Frans Hals," November 9-November 23, 1937, cat. no 15.
San Francisco, CA, Golden Gate International Exhibition, "Masterworks of Five Centuries," 1939, cat. no. 81.
Dayton, OH, The Dayton Art Institute, "European Loans from the Kress Collection," December 1, 1939-April 8, 1940, p. 13.
Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, "Masterpieces of Dutch Art," May 7-May 30, 1940, cat. no. 27.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25-February 15, 1987.
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