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Frans Hals
Portrait Of A Gentleman By Frans Hals
Circa 1630

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Frans Hals 1582-1666 Dutch Portrait of a Gentleman (possibly Theodore Blevet) Oil on panel “Frans Hals is a colourist among the colourists...Frans Hals must have had twenty-seven blacks.” -Vincent van Gogh writing of Frans Hals’ genius in a letter to his brother Theo Letter 536, 20 October 1885. This masterful and rare oil painting by Frans Hals is a quintessential portrait of the Dutch Golden Age. Painted circa 1630, this portrait is exemplary of Hals’ celebrated oeuvre and has been verified as an authentic work by the world’s foremost Hals scholars, including the former and current chief curators of the Frans Hals Museum. Calm, austere and decorous, the portrait depicts a man turning to meet the viewer's gaze. Wearing a dark cloak with a pleated white collar, the sitter holds a quill in his right hand – perhaps indicating his profession as a writer or calligrapher. The canvas is marked with an inscription that reads “He is 30 years old” in Latin. Imbued with a sense of genteel kindness, Hals renders the sitter’s expressive face with his signature bold, impressionistic brushwork, painting the sitter’s bone structure with a level of realism and precision that naturalistically captures his likeness along with a glimmer of his personality too. This composition also showcases Hals’ remarkable approach to color whilst working with the deceptively simple palettes of the era. In the Post-Reformation Calvinist society, Dutch elites stood at a delicate balance of boasting the fruits of the Dutch East India Company through both their attire and possessions, while also appearing moral and restrained. Thus, virtuosic painters like Frans Hals would render the dark, yet richly textured fabrics of his sitters with a certain air of inconspicuous luxury in an effort to simultaneously conceal and highlight the sitters’ great taste and wealth. Scholars surmise that this portrait of a black cloak and white collar-clad man likely captures calligrapher and schoolmaster Theodore Blevet, noting the sitter’s resemblance to an engraving of Blevet by Theodor Matham done after a lost 1640 portrait by Frans Hals. This portrait is an unequivocal triumph of Dutch Golden Age portraiture and an exemplary showpiece of Hals’ esteemed oeuvre. It perfectly showcases the technical acuity and emotional intelligence Hals brought to his works, underscoring his mastery over the medium of oil painting and the genre of portraiture. Frans Hals’ works grace the walls of the most renowned museums in the world including the Rijksmuseum, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Hals’ namesake museum in Haarlem in the Netherlands. Hals’ compositions are instantly recognizable by both art connoisseurs and casual museum-goers alike. Hals, Rembrandt and Vermeer are regarded as the crowning trifecta of painters of the Dutch Golden Age, with Hals specifically holding court as the leader in the realm of portraiture. Scholars today praise Hals as decisively ahead of his time, noting the groundbreaking sense of modernity in his 17th-century works. Hals’ triumphant ability with portraiture has been the subject of several seminal exhibitions mounted at institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Art and The Wallace Collection. Circa 1630 Canvas: 17 1/2” high by 14 1/4” wide Framed: 25 1/2” high by 23 3/8” wide Exhibited: The Hague, Schilderkundig Genootschap Pulchri Studio, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, November 1919, no. 50, illustrated, as Frans Hals Amsterdam, Maatschappij voor Beeldende Kunst, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 14 December 1919-4 January 1920, no. 28, illustrated, as Frans Hals Copenhaguen, Staaten's Museum for Konst, Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, January-February 1920, no. 24, illustrated, as Frans Hals Christiania [Oslo], Utstillet Christiania Kunstforening, Katalog over Goudstikkers Samling Amsterdam, April 1920, no. 24, illustrated, as Frans Hals St. Louis, City Art Museum, November 1922, no. 45, as Frans Hals Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, January 1923, no. 2, as Frans Hals New York, The Anderson Galleries, March 1923, no. 48 as Frans Hals Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 20 December 1924-11 January 1925, no. 30, as Frans Hals Utrecht, Centraal Museum, December 1925-January 1926, no. as Frans Hals1 The Hague, Schilderkundig Genootschap Pulchri Studio, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 13 March-4 April 1926, no. 66, illustrated, as Frans Hals Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Catalogue de la Collection Goudstikker d'Amsterdam, 10-25 April 1926, no. 43, as Frans Hals Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Tentoonstelling van oude Kunst, 1929, no. 61, as Frans Hals Rotterdam, Rotterdamsche Kunstkring, Catalogus der Tentoonstelling van Schilderijen en Antiquiteiten geexposeerd door den Kunsthandel J Goudstikker NV., Amsterdam, 17December 1936-10 January 1937, no. 26, illustrated, as Frans Hals Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Tentoonstelling van oude kunst in het Frans Halsmuseum, 4-26 April 1936, p. 17, no. 17, as Frans Hals Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Frans Hals tentoonstelling ter gelegenheid van het 75-jarig bestaan van het Gemeentelijk Museum Haarlem, 30 June 1937, no. 38, fig. 38, as Frans Hals Literature: W.R. Valentiner, 'Frans Hals, des Meisters Gemalde', in Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart/Berlin, 1921, p. 80, illustrated, p. 311 as Frans Hals W.R. Valentiner, 'Frans Hals, des Meisters Gemalde', in Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart/Berlin, 1923, p. 83, illustrated, p. 312 as Frans Hals C. Grimm, France Hals and his Workshop, will be published in Autumn 2023, no. A3. 13, as Frans Hals Provenance: Friedrich W.R.A. Lippmann, Berlin and London Jacques Goudstikker, Amsterdam by 1919 Looted by the Nazi authorities in July 1940 Recovered by the Allies in 1945 In the custody of the Dutch Government Restituted to the heir of Jacques Goudstikker in February 2006 Sale Christie's Amsterdam, 14 November 2007, lot 4 Private Collection, USA M.S. Rau, New Orleans

Creator:
Frans Hals (Dutch)
Creation Year:
Circa 1630
Dimensions:
Height: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)Width: 22.38 in (56.85 cm)Depth: 2.75 in (6.99 cm)
Medium:
Oil,Panel
Movement & Style:
Old Masters
Period:
17th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
New Orleans, LA
Reference Number:
Seller: 31-68671stDibs: LU18612203172

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