''Two singing boys with a lute and a music book'' is a painting by the

Dutch Golden Age painter Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence. The new Dutch Repub ...

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 ''c.'' 1625 and now in the

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Painting

This painting was documented by

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: "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 Groot
on 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 paintings of the 1620s: File:The Smoker MET DP146499.jpg, ''

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 ta ...

'', with an accomplice on the left and another in the background on the right File:Frans Hals 072.jpg, ''

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 t ...

'', with an accomplice on the left File:1623 Hals Junger Mann und Frau in einem Gasthaus anagoria.JPG, '' Yonker Ramp and his sweetheart'', with an accomplice on the right File:Frans Hals - St Matthew - Museum of Western European and Oriental Art, Odessa.jpg, ''

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 ...

'', with an accomplice on the left

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