Frans Hals. An introduction

Michiel Kersten

Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo:

‘Frans Hals is the colorist under the colorists’

‘What a joy it is to see a Frans Hals, how different it is from the paintings – so many of them – where everything is carefully smoothed out in the same manner.’

Catharina Hooft and her nurse, circa 1619-20 | Berlin, Gem

älde Galerie

Frans Hals – biography

• Born 1582/83 in Antwerpen – died 1666 in Haarlem• 1586 Family moves to Haarlem (baptism of his brother Dirck)• 1603 Pupil of Karel van Mander• 1610 Member of the Guild of Saint Luke• 1610 Marriage with Anneke Harmensdr• 1616 Journey to Antwerpen to study Peter Paul Rubens’ work• 1617 Marriage with Lysbeth Reyniersdr in Spaarndam• Total number of children: 15

Frans Hals – portrait painter

• Individual portraits and portraits of couples (double portraits)• Comic figures and Children (genre scenes)• Children • Family portraits• Regents and regentesses• Militia pieces (Civic Guards)

Frans Hals - paintings

Number of paintings by Hals• circa 220 (Seymour Slive)• circa 145 (Claus Grimm)

Pupils:• Dirck Hals• Adriaen Brouwer• Adriaen van Ostade• Philips Wouwerman• Pieter Gerritsz Roestraeten, • Jan Miense Molenaer• Judith Leyster

Shrovetide Revellers, 1616, oil on canvas New

York, M

etropolitain Museum

of Art ----------------------

Influence of Jacob Jordaens, Peter Paul Rubens

Isaac Massa en Beatrix van der Laan, circa 1622

Amsterdam

, Rijksmuseum

Jacob Pietersz Olycan and Aletta Hanem

ans, 1625 | Den Haag, M

auritshuis

Stephanus Geraedts and Isabella Coymans, 1650-

52 | Antwerpen | Privat collection

‘Jonker Ramp and his beloved’, circa 1623

New

York, Metropolitain M

useum of Art

The ‘romm

elpot’ player, circa 1618-20 Fort W

orth, Texas, The Kimbell Art M

useum

Buffoon playing the lute, circa 1623 Paris, M

usée du Louvre

‘Peeckelharing’, 1628-30 | Kassel, Staatliche Kunstsam

mlung

Drinking wom

an with an ow

l on her shoulder (M

alle Babbe), 1630-35 |Berlin , Gem

älde Galerie

Malle Babbe, detail

The Laughing Cavalier, 1624 | Londen, W

allace Collection

The laughing cavalier, detail

The jolly toper, 1630 | Am

sterdam, Rijksm

useum

Willem

van Heythuysen, circa 1638 | Frankrijk, Private collection

Portrait of a family, 1635

Cincinatti, O

hio, Cincinatti M

useum of Art

Frans HalsCivic Guards / Militia Pieces in Haarlem

Offi

cieren van de Sint-Jorisschutterij, 1616

The officers of the Civic Guard of Saint Adriaen

(Cluveniers/The Calivermen), 1627

The Offi

cers of the Civic Guard of Saint George, 1627

The regentesses of the Old M

en’s Alms House,

1664

The regentessen of the Old M

en’s Alms House,

1664 - Detail

The regents of the Old M

en’s Alms House, 1664

The regents of the Old M

en’s Alms House, 1664

Detail

Judith Leyster

Judith Leyster (1609-1660), The jolly toper (drinker), ca. 1629

Haarlem, Frans Hals M

useum

The discovery of Hals after 1850

The impressionists• Edouard Manet• Claude Monet• Charles Daubigny• Gustave Courbet• William Meritt Chase• John Singer Sargent• Mary Cassett• James Abott NcNeill Whistler• Max Liebermann• Lovis Corinth• Isaac Israëls • Jacobus van Looy• Vincent van Gogh

William

Meritt Chase (1849-1916), in zijn atelier,

1880-1916, Bezocht Haarlem sam

en met W

histler in 1885

Edouard Manet (1832-1883),

Un bon bock (portrait of Ém

ile Belot), 1873 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia M

useum of Art

Edouard Manet, Berthe M

orisot, 1872 | Parijs

Edouard Manet,

Georges Clémanceau, 1879-80 | Fort W

orth

Claude Monet (1840-1926),

Strandscene, 1870

Vincent van Gogh ((1853-1890), Zelfportret, 1887 | Chicago

Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of a w

oman, 1885

Amsterdam

, Van Gogh Museum

Vincent van Gogh, Korenveld m

et cipressen, ca. 1889 | New

York