Frans Hals’s “The Lute Player” (1623-4). Some of Hals’s most popular paintings depict characters he encountered in the taverns of Haarlem, the Netherlands.

Art History Frans Hals Is a Master of the ‘Fleeting Moment.’ Here Are Backstories Behind 5 Seminal Works. His enigmatic portraits have been traveling across Europe for nearly a year.

All you ever wanted to know about Hals, from an 18th-century biography to a 1994 novel of the artist's “lost diaries”—selected by the Rijksmuseum curator Friso Lammertse ...

Frans Hals is the latest 17th century Dutch master to feature in a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, following recent showings of the art of Rembrandt and Vermeer.

The artist was Frans Hals, who is the subject of a new exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. (A different version was previously shown at the National Gallery in London.) ...

Frans Hals was poor, overshadowed, and often unproductive. He also made paint look like life. By Zachary Fine. November 3, 2023 “The Laughing Cavalier,” 1624. Art work by Frans Hals ...

No joke: Frans Hals paints all of Dutch life at new exhibition February 13, 2024 Senay Boztas Installing The Lute Player, a loan from the Louvre Photo: Rijksmuseum/Kelly Schenk. It isn’t just the ...

Even in this fragment of Frans Hals’s painting of the Van Campens, it is clear the artist was ahead of his time This family portrait by the great 17th-century Dutch painter Frans Hals (1582/1583 ...

Frans Hals painted him twice. First a standing portrait grasping his pretty sword against a backdrop of rose-coloured silk beside a formal garden in 1625.

Two paintings by Frans Hals, possibly depicting his children, are returning to the Netherlands after a century abroad. The Frans Hals Museum and the Mauritshuis jointly purchased "Boy Playing the ...

Frans Hals Fete; Mevrouw Hanken-Parker Article. Full text is unavailable for this digitized archive article. Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through ...

The Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and the Mauritshuis in The Hague have jointly purchased two paintings by Frans Hals at an auction in New York. Boy Playing the Violin and Girl Singing, both painted ...