Frans HalsNiederlande, 1581–1666Laughing boy
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Unbekannt: Das Museum schweigt sich aus
Mauritshuis
Den Haag, Niederlande
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- Unverändert seit
- 29. Sept. 2026
- Quelle
- Sammlungsdaten des Museums selbst
About the painting
Laughing Boy (Dutch: Lachende jongen) is a circular oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch artist Frans Hals. It belongs to the tronie genre and was painted around 1625. It is in the collection of the Mauritshuis.
Another circular portrait with a laughing boy is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and shows a soap bubble on the right. A third version exists where the boy is grasping a whistle or flute. Several other circular portraits of laughing boys, all painted around the same period, with or without a bubble or a whistle, have been attributed to Hals in the past. Of the twenty or so paintings identified in 1974 by the Hals expert Seymour Slive, he considered only three to be authentic.
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The Hals expert Claus Grimm rejected the other two and claims only this one is authentic. In his own time, Hals's works were copied by art students. In the late 19th century young artists in the impressionist movement were impressed by the loose brush strokes and wet-in-wet painting technique of these small tondos, and it is possible that a few of the many copies on the art market today date from this later period.
Other boys painted by Hals in round tondos:
Angaben
- Inventarnummer
- 1032
Quellen
- Wikidata · abgerufen vor 5 Tagen
- Bild: Mauritshuis — Frans Hals · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Derweil im Leben von Frans Hals
Das ganze Leben1617–1666 · Wirkungsort
Haarlem
1618–1626
The chamber of rhetoric “The Vine Branches”
From 1618 to 1626 Hals is a member of Haarlem's chamber of rhetoric, the literary society “The Vine Branches” (De Wijngaertranken).
1620–1630
More commissioned portraits and new pupils
Between 1620 and 1630 Hals paints more and more commissioned portraits and takes on pupils, probably including Philips Wouwerman.
1626
Pupil: Adriaen van Ostade
1627
Son born: Reynier Hals
1628
Son born: Nicolaes Hals
