Lot 372: The Boy Flutist

Hals II Frans
Haarlem 1618 - Haarlem 1669
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The Boy Flutist
Oil/wood, 38 x 37,5 cm, min. rest. - Prov.: Gallery Koetser, London, 1965 (as Frans Hals II), Collection John A. Viccars. - The work is based on an earlier version in the Museum Schwerin and is probably part of a series of the 'Five Senses'. - Dutch figure, still life a. interior painter, like J. Leyster a. J. M. Molenaer trained in the workshop of his famous father of the same name. Because of the stylistical similarity to the father's hand only few paintings can be definitely identified as works of the son. - Mus.: St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Dresden. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.