''The Fisher Boy'' is a 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 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. DE STRANDLOOPER VAN HAARLEM (The Haarlem Fisher-Boy). B. 37 ; M. 254. Half-length ; life size. A fisher-boy, seen in full face, laughs at the spectator. His arms are folded on his breast. He wears a little cap ; his hair is in disorder. He wears a jacket with broad sleeves, and carries a basket on his back. At the back is a landscape ; to the right is the sea. ossibly identical with 55, 58a, and 58c.Signed on the left with the intertwined letters " F. H." ; canvas, 30 inches by 25 1/2 inches. Sale.

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, Paris, April 16 and 20, 1869. In the possession of the Paris dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 46. In the Antwerp Museum, 1905 catalogue, No. 188. " Hofstede de Groot noted several fisherboys by Hals along with this one (catalogue numbers 49 through to 58c). This painting was also documented by

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in 1923.''Der Strandlaufer von Haarlem'', number 117 right
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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 - fisher boy Burgsteinfurt.jpg, ''

Laughing Fisherboy ''Laughing Fisherboy'' is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1628 and now in Westphalia. Painting This painting was documented by Ernst Wilhelm Moes in 1909 and Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:A ...

References

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