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Boy with a Lute, Frans Hals, ca. 1625
Frans Hals, portraitFrans HalsDutch, 1581–1666

Boy with a Lute

ca. 1625 · Painting

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Yes, receiving visitors

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Room616

On public display.

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About the painting

The Fingernail Test is an oil-on-canvas Dutch Golden Age painting that has been attributed to either Frans Hals or Judith Leyster, painted in 1626 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.

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Particulars

Accession number
14.40.604

What it shows

BoysPortraitLutes

In the catalog

PaintingsOilDutch paintingBaroque17th century

Sources

Meanwhile, in the life of Frans Hals

The whole life

  1. 1612–1624

    Service in the Haarlem civic guard

    From 1612 to 1624 Hals serves in the local civic guard (schutterij); he will paint his first “militia picture” in 1616 and his last in 1639.

  2. 1617–1666 · Workplace

    Haarlem

  3. 1623

    Daughter born: Adriaentje Hals

  4. December 1624

    Son born: Jacob Hals

  5. 1626

    Pupil: Adriaen van Ostade

  6. 1627

    Son born: Reynier Hals

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