Portrait of a Man

Jan Hals Dutch, 1620 - 1654
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About the Artwork

Portrait of a Man

1644

Jan Hals

1620 - 1654

Dutch

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 34 1/2 × 28 inches (87.6 × 71.1 cm)

Paintings

European Painting

Bequest of Walter O. Briggs

52.144

This work is in the public domain.

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Signed, center right: IH AETAT SVAE 37 1644

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Provenance

1921, (S. T. Smith & Sons, London, England)

1923, (Arthur Sulley, London, England). by 1935, collection of Walter O. Briggs (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1952-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Valentiner, W. R. Frans Hals des Meisters Gemälde, (KdK). Stuttgart and Berlin, 1921, no. 198 [as Frans Hals]. Second edition Berlin & Leipzig, 1923, no. 219 [as Frans Hals].

Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, January 10-February 28, 1935, cat. 39.

Valentiner, W. R. Frans Hals Paintings in America. Westport, 1936, no. 79 [Collection Mr. Walter O. Briggs, Detroit].

Seventeenth Century Dutch Paintings. Exh. cat., McIntosh Gallery, University of Western Ontario. London, February 20-March 20, 1954, cat. 1.

Slive, S. "Frans Hals Studies, Jan Franszoon Hals," Oud Holland, vol. 76 (1961): p. 80, (fig. 26).

Grimm, C. Frans Hals. pp. 155-156, cat. 4, (repr.).

Slive, S. Frans Hals, 3 vols. London, Phaidon, 1970-1974; vol. 3, p. 148, cat. D.57, (fig. 178) [as Jan Hals].

Dutch Seventeenth Century Portraiture The Golden Age. Exh. cat., John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Sarasota, FL, 1980-1981, cat. 30, (repr.).

Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 94-95, no. 36 (ill.).

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Jan Hals, Portrait of a Man, 1644, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Walter O. Briggs, 52.144.

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