''Laughing Fisherboy'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter

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 ...

, painted in 1628 and now in Westphalia.

Painting

This painting was documented by

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 stud ...

in 1909 and

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 ...

in 1910, who wrote:

A LAUGHING FISHER BOY. M. 253 - A fair boy, turned to the right. He holds his hands before his breast. He wears a blue cap, a blue doublet, and over it a grey jacket with short sleeves. Behind his left arm is seen the basket which he carries on his back. At the back is a view of the dunes. To the left are two little figures on a road. On the right a church spire rises a little above the dunes. Cloudy sky. Very broad and loose in style. The boy's smile is very well rendered. In good preservation. Signed, on a jug hanging from a strap over the shoulder, with a monogram composed of the letters "F H F"; canvas, 26 1/2 inches by 22 inches.

Hofstede de Groot noticed that this painting is similar to several other paintings by Hals, which Seymour Slive and

Claus Grimm Claus Grimm (born November 22, 1940) is a German art historian and from its founding in 1983 until 2007 he was director of the Bavarian historical institute Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte in Augsburg. He is considered an authority on Frans Hals ...

refer to as "fisher folk". In the exhibition catalog for the 1962 show, this painting's entry at #21 states that N.S. Trivas went too far when he dismissed all of these paintings as being unattributable to the master, and that the shaggy cap is one which was often worn by farmers and Dutch sailors in the 17th century. Seymour Slive and C.A. van Hees, ''Frans Hals 1962'', #21, Laughing Fisherboy, pp 42-43 Other fisher folk by Hals: File:Frans Hals 093 WGA version.jpg, ''

Smiling Fishergirl ''Smiling Fishergirl'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in the early 1630s, now in a private collection. Painting This painting was documented by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:11 ...

'' File:Hals, Frans - Fisher Boy - 1630-32.jpg, '' Fisher boy with basket'' File:Frans Hals 092 WGA version.jpg, ''

The Fisher Boy ''The Fisher Boy'' is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in the early 1630s, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp. Painting This painting was documented by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote "49. ...

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