Tuesday, October 6, 2026

Frans Hals
(c. 1582 – 26 August 1666)

Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate their homes with works of art. Hals was highly sought after by wealthy burgher commissioners of individual, married-couple, family, and institutional-group portraits. He also painted tronies for the general market.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Hals

Gypsy Girl
c. 1626 
Oil on wood
58 x 52 cm
The Louvre, Paris
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010060266


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