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The Smoker
''The Smoker'' is an oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1626 and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Painting The painting is also known as ''Three Heads'' and shows a boy wearing a tassel collar puffing on a long Dutch clay pipe with his head facing the viewer while another youngster in a wide collar hugs him and behind them a woman wearing a kerchief can be seen holding a tin can. Name In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot called this painting a copy of a round version and wrote:133. THE SMOKER AND HIS GIRL. B. 114; M. 211,212. In the centre is the head of a youth, seen almost in full face but inclined to the left. He holds a long clay pipe in his left hand. Behind him to the left is the head of a girl looking at him. Her left hand rests on his left shoulder. In the right background the head of an old woman is sketched in light green. Behind the heads of the youth and girl is a curtain. Very expr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frans Hals
Frans Hals the Elder (, , ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, chiefly of individual and group portraits and of genre works, who lived and worked in Haarlem. Hals played an important role in the evolution of 17th-century group Portrait painting, portraiture. He is known for his loose painterly brushwork. Biography Hals was born in 1582 or 1583 in Antwerp, then in the Spanish Netherlands, as the son of cloth merchant Franchois Fransz Hals van Mechelen ( 1542–1610) and his second wife Adriaentje van Geertenryck.Frans Hals iat the Netherlands Institute for Art History Like many, Hals's parents fled during the Fall of Antwerp (1584–1585) from the south to Haarlem in the new Dutch Republic in the north, where he lived for the remainder of his life. Hals studied under Flemish people, Flemi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy With A Glass And Tin Can
''Laughing boy with a flute'' is an oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1626 and now in the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin. Painting The painting shows a boy with a flute with his head at an angle facing the viewer. Provenance In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (9 November 1863 – 14 April 1930), was a Dutch art collector, art historian and museum curator. Life He was born in Dwingeloo and spent some time in Switzerland in his youth due to weak lungs, where he learned Germa ... wrote: "32. A LAUGHING BOY WITH A FLUTE. B. 118 ; M. 230. Half-length ; life size, almost in full face. The line of the shoulders rises to the left. The head is also almost in full face, but slightly inclined to the left. The long hair falls down, but a lock dangles just above the right shoulder. The eyes look at the spectator. The left hand holds a flute. Light-grey background. Broadly painted. The g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Paintings By Frans Hals
The following is an incomplete list of paintings by Frans Hals that are generally accepted as autograph by the Frans Hals Museum and other sources. The list is more or less in order of creation, starting from around 1610 when Frans Hals began painting on his own. Prior to that he was employed by the Haarlem council as a city art restorer and before that he was assistant to Karel van Mander. See also * Marriage pendant portraits by Frans Hals – a subset of this list showing the marriage pendants side-by-side * Frans Hals catalogue raisonné, 1974 – the list of 222 paintings attributed as autograph by Seymour Slive in 1974 * Frans Hals catalogue raisonné, 1989 – the list of 145 paintings attributed as autograph by Claus Grimm in 1989 Sources * ''Frans Hals'', by Seymour Slive, a catalogue raisonné of Hals works by Seymour Slive: Volume Three, the catalogue, National gallery of Art: Kress Foundation, Studies in the History of European Art, London – Phaidon Press, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Evangelist Matthew And The Angel
''St. Matthew'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1625 and now in the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Odesa. Painting The painting shows Saint Matthew sitting at a desk reading with an angel at his elbow.De evangelist Matteüs in record for this painting in the This painting was documented in the 18th century but was considered lost until the 1950s, when two were discovered languishing in the storerooms of the Odesa Museum of Western and Eastern Art in 1958 by art historian Irina Linnik. At the time they were considered to be by unknown 19th-century painters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Laughing Boys With Mug Of Beer
''Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by Frans Hals, created ''c.'' 1626, showing a ''Kannekijker'' (mug-looker). Someone looking into a mug refers to an old Dutch word for a glutton, greedy for more. This visual theme was also used to depict sight as one of the five senses, and various people have argued about whether this portrait was meant as one in a series of the five senses along with '' Two Boys singing'' for hearing and a variant version of '' The Smoker'' for smell: File:Frans Hals 072.jpg File:Frans Hals - Two Boys Singing - WGA11077.jpg Hals has included an accomplice peering over the central figure's shoulder, and besides the other two paintings already mentioned, this theme of a main subject with a secondary witness was common to many of his paintings of the 1620s: File:The Smoker MET DP146499.jpg, '' The Smoker'', with an accomplice on the left and another in the background on the right File:1623 Hals Junger Mann und Frau in einem G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Boys Singing
''Two singing boys with a lute and a music book'' is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted ''c.'' 1625 and now in the Museum Schloss Wilhelmshöhe. Painting This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote: "TWO BOYS SINGING. B. 98; M. 224 - The boy on the right is seen in a three-quarter view facing left. He is in dark clothes with a white collar and a plumed cap. He holds in his left hand a lute resting on the table, while he beats time with his right hand. He looks down to the left at an open music-book on the table. Behind him to the left is the head of another boy, who looks at the music and sings with him. Signed on the left at foot with the monogram; canvas, 26 inches by 20 1/2 inches."Hofstede de Grooton Two Boys singing; catalog number 135 Hals has "an accomplice" peering over his shoulder, and besides the other two paintings already mentioned, this theme of a main subject with a secondary witness was common to many of his pai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laughing Boy With A Flute
''Laughing boy with a flute'' is an oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1626 and now in the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin. Painting The painting shows a boy with a flute with his head at an angle facing the viewer. Provenance In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (9 November 1863 – 14 April 1930), was a Dutch art collector, art historian and museum curator. Life He was born in Dwingeloo and spent some time in Switzerland in his youth due to weak lungs, where he learned Germa ... wrote: "32. A LAUGHING BOY WITH A FLUTE. B. 118 ; M. 230. Half-length ; life size, almost in full face. The line of the shoulders rises to the left. The head is also almost in full face, but slightly inclined to the left. The long hair falls down, but a lock dangles just above the right shoulder. The eyes look at the spectator. The left hand holds a flute. Light-grey background. Broadly painted. The g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwerin
Schwerin (; Mecklenburgisch dialect, Mecklenburgian Low German: ''Swerin''; Latin: ''Suerina'', ''Suerinum'') is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Germany, second-largest city of the northeastern States of Germany, German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as of the region of Mecklenburg, after Rostock. It has around 96,000 inhabitants, and is thus the least populous of all German state capitals. Schwerin is located on the southwestern shore of Lake Schwerin (''Schweriner See''), the second-largest lake of the Mecklenburg Lake Plateau after the Müritz, and there are eleven other lakes within Schwerin's city limits. The city is surrounded by the district of Nordwestmecklenburg, Northwestern Mecklenburg to the north, and the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim to the south. Schwerin and the two surrounding districts form the eastern outskirts of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region. The name of the city is of Polabian Slavs, Slavic origin, deriving from the root ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seymour Slive
Seymour Slive (September 15, 1920 – June 14, 2014) was an American art historian, who served as director of the Harvard Art Museums from 1975 to 1984. Slive was a scholar of Dutch art, specifically of the artists Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Jacob van Ruisdael. Early life and education A Chicago native and the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants Daniel and Sophia Rapoport, Slive received his bachelor's degree in 1943 and DPhil in 1952, both from the University of Chicago. He served in the United States Navy Reserve during World War II, starting in his junior year of college, and was on active duty in the Pacific Theater from 1942 to 1946. Career Slive was appointed to his first teaching position at Oberlin College in 1950, but soon moved on to Pomona College, where he became an assistant professor of art and chair of department from 1952 to 1954. While there, he published his first book, ''Rembrandt and His Critics, 1630–1730''. In 1954, he joined Harvard University, where he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum Stadt Königsberg
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Wilhelm Moes
Ernst Wilhelm Moes (1864 – 1912), was a Dutch art historian and director of the print cabinet for the Rijksmuseum. Biography According to the NNBW he studied art at the University of Amsterdam and became a print collector while still a student, specialized in Amsterdam history. To simplify his research, from 1885 he became a volunteer at the Amsterdam auction house of Frederik Muller.Ernst Wilhelm Moes in the In 1896 he published his first work on the history of the Amsterdam publishing industry. His ''Iconographia'', a comprehensive guide to portraits of Dutch people, was published by Frederik Muller & Co. In 1898 he began wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
