A young man playing a flute

细节

Studio of Frans Hals (Haarlem 1581/5-1666)
A young man playing a flute
oil on canvas, lozenge
26 x 25¾ in. (66 x 65.4 cm.)

来源

Lady de Clifford, London.
(Possibly) E. Warneck, Paris, 1878.
J. Orrock, London.
Dr. W.C. Lodwidge; Christie's, London, 1 December 1906, lot 80 (1500 gns. to the following).
Sir James Linton.
with Colnaghi, London, 1907.
with Knoedler, London, 1908.
with Henry Reinhardt, New York, from whom purchased by the following.
Edward Drummond Libbey, by whom gifted in 1925 to the Toledo Museum of Art.

出版

(Possibly) W. Bode, Studien zur Geschichte der Holländischen Malerei, Braunschweig, 1883, p. 85, no. 76, as Frans Hals.
E.W. Moes, Frans Hals, sa vie et son oeuvre, Brussels, 1909, p. 109, no. 222, as Frans Hals.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Catalogue of Dutch painters, London, 1910, III, p. 23, no. 85, as Frans Hals.
W. von Bode, ed., and M.J. Binder, Frans Hals, His Life and Work, Berlin, 1914, I, no. 59, pl. 26A, as Frans Hals.
W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals, Klassiker der Kunst, XXVIII, Berlin, 1921, p. 311, under p. 78, as Frans Hals.
Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, March 1926, no. 48, [n.p], as Frans Hals.
A. Frankfurter, 'Paintings by Frans Hals in the United States,' Antiquarian, XIII, September 1929, pp. 32-35, as Frans Hals.
Pantheon, XV, March 1935, no. 48, repr.
W. Valentiner, Frans Hals paintings in America, Westport, CT, 1936, no. 56, as Frans Hals.
Toledo Museum of Art Children's Museum News, September 1936, no. 12, repr., as Frans Hals.
H. Tietze, ed., Masterpieces of European painting in America, New York, 1939, pp. 161, 320, no. 161b, as Frans Hals.
B.M. Godwin, European Paintings in the Toledo Museum, Toledo, 1939, pp. 89-90, repr., as Frans Hals.
Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, IV, no. 1, Winter 1961, pp. 13, 20, repr., as Frans Hals.
M.J. Christie, The picture story of art, Toledo, 1963, pp. 71-72, fig. 98, pl. C-1, as Frans Hals.
W.G. Constable, Art collecting in the United States of America, London, 1964, p. 130, as Frans Hals.
L. Bruner, 'The Toledo Museum of Art,' American Artist, XXX, no. 4, April 1966, pp. 33-39, 71, 76, repr., as Hals.
O. Wittmann, 'The Golden Age in the Netherlands,' Apollo, LXXXVI, no. 70, Dec. 1967, pp. 466-467, fig. 3, as Frans Hals.
S. Slive, Frans Hals, London, 1974, III, p. 139, no. D28-2, fig. 146, under doubtful and wrongly attributed works.
E.C. Montagni, L'opera completa di Frans Hals, Milan, 1974, p. 118, under no. 317, as of disputed attribution.
The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 74, pl. III, as follower of Frans Hals.
J. Vial, 'Musical Instruments: Woodwinds,' Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, XX, no. 4, 1978, pp. 98-99, fig. 9, as follower of Frans Hals.
C. Stukenbrock, Frans Hals-Fröhlicher Kinder, Musikanten und Zecher, Frankfurt am Main, 1993, p. 144, note 455, as anonymous.

展览

New York, Metropolitian Museum of Art, The Hudson-Fulton Celebration, September-November 1909, I, no. 24, as Frans Hals.
Reinhardt Galleries, New York, 1910.
The Toledo Museum of Art, The Inaugural Exhibition, 17 January-12 February 1912, no. 178, as Frans Hals.
Cleveland Museum of Art, The Inaugural Exhibition, 6 June-20 September 1916, no. 9, as Frans Hals.
Reinhardt Galleries, New York, 1928.
Detroit Institute of Arts, An exhibition of fifty paintings by Frans Hals, 10 January-28 February 1935, no. 14, as Frans Hals.
Toledo Museum of Art, Portraits and Portraiture Througout the Ages, 3-31 October 1937, no. 12, as Frans Hals.
New York, Wildenstein Gallery, Exhibition in honor of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, 1952.
Toledo Museum of Art, The Unseen Art of TMA: What's in the Vaults and Why?, 12 September 2004-2 January 2005.

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拍品专文

The energetic handling and musical subject of A young man playing a flute captures the dynamism associated with the mature works of the preeminent 17th-century Dutch master, Frans Hals. The leading portraitist of his day in Haarlem, Hals produced animated depictions of young musicians, such as Singing boy with a flute from around 1620-1623 (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, inv. 801A). Pictures of single musicians were popular in the Netherlands at this time, having been popularized by artists in Utrecht such as Hendrick ter Brugghen, whose Flute Player of 1621 (Kassel, Staatliche Gemäldegalerie, inv. 179) was a key precedent for Hals (see S. Slive, Frans Hals, exh. cat., London, pp. 172-175). Hals made such imagery his own, however, employing his distinctive bold, deliberate brushstrokes. The artist of the present work clearly admired this technique, using visible white strokes of paint on the musician's nose, cheek and hands to create the brash highlights for which Hals is known.

For contemporary viewers, A young man playing a flute may have embodied the sense of hearing. Several of Hals' pictures, such as his Singing Girl and Boy playing a violin now in a private collection (see Slive, op. cit., pp. 202-203), have been linked to the themes of sight and hearing. These works, like the present picture, are in a lozenge format.

Pieter Bisbeoer has stated that the present painting likely originated in the workshop of Frans Hals. He dates the painting to around 1645, based on comparison to the portrait of Joseph Coymans in the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford (dated 1644; inv. 1958.176) and the portrait of Willem Coymans in The National Gallery of Art, Washington (dated 1645; inv. 1937.1.69). He sees the touches in the hands, cuffs, hair, and feathers on his hat of the present work as evidence that this painting is the work of an artist trained by Hals, such as his son Frans Hals II or a pupil such as Vincent Laurensz. van der Vinne (b. 1628) (P. Biesboer, private communication 10 November 2013).

We are grateful to Pieter Biesboer for his assistance in cataloging this lot.

A young man playing a flute

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