About the Artwork
Laughing Boy
17th century
Frans Hals
ca. between 1582 and 1583-1666
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 13 1/4 × 12 1/4 inches (33.7 × 31.1 cm) Framed: 31 3/4 × 20 3/4 × 4 3/8 inches (80.6 × 52.7 × 11.1 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Fisher
48.383
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
collection of Edouard Warneck (Paris, France)
May 27-28, 1926, auction of E. Warneck (Georges Petit, Paris, France), lot 47
1928, (Howard Young Galleries, New York, New York, USA)
Collection of Mr. & Mrs. William A. Fisher
1948-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bode, W. von. Studien zur Geschichte der holländischen Malerei. Braunschweig, 1883, p. 85, no. 78 [as unfinished].
Moes, E.W. Frans Hals sa Vie et son Oeuvre. The Hague, 1905, no. 246.
Catalogus de l'Exposition de Maitres hollandais du XVIIe siècle en l'Honneur du Tercentenaire de Rembrandt. Exh. cat.?, Frederik Muller & Co. Amsterdam, 1906, p. 20, cat. 58, (repr.) [lent by M. E. Warneck, Paris].
Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 3. London, 1910, no. 20.
Bode, W. and M. J. Binder. Frans Hals sein Leben und seine Werke. Berlin, 1914, no. 33, pl. 14a.
Valentiner, W. R. Frans Hals des Meisters Gemälde. (KdK). Stuttgart and Berlin, 1921, p. 32; 2nd edition, Berlin & Leipzig, 1923, p. 33.
Art News, vol. 25 (May 1927): p. 50, pl. 5.
Frankfurter, A. M. "Paintings by Frans Hals in the United States," The Antiquarian, vol. 8, no. 2 (1929): p. 86.
Richardson, E. P. "Frans Hals' Laughing Boy," Bulletin of the DIA 29, no. 1 (1949-1950): pp. 12-14, (repr.) p. 13.
Masterpieces of Painting from Detroit Private Collections. Detroit, 1949, no. 15 [as gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Fisher].
Slive, S. Frans Hals, 3 vols. London, Phaidon, 1970-1974; vol. 3, p. 128, cat. D I.I [as copy after a lost painting by Frans Hals].
Keyes, George S., et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 92–93, no. 35 (ill.).
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after Frans Hals, Laughing Boy, 17th century, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Fisher, 48.383.
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