Lecture on Frans Hals, painter of portraits in Haarlem in the seventeenth century

1. Frans Hals. An introduction
Michiel Kersten

2. 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.’

3. CatharinaHooftandhernurse,circa1619-20|
Berlin,GemäldeGalerie

4. 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

5. 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)

6. 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

7. ShrovetideRevellers,1616,oiloncanvasNew
York,MetropolitainMuseumofArt
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InfluenceofJacobJordaens,PeterPaulRubens

9. IsaacMassaenBeatrixvanderLaan,circa1622
Amsterdam,Rijksmuseum

10. JacobPieterszOlycanandAlettaHanemans,1625
|DenHaag,Mauritshuis

11. StephanusGeraedtsandIsabellaCoymans,1650-
52|Antwerpen|Privatcollection

12. ‘JonkerRampandhisbeloved’,circa1623
NewYork,MetropolitainMuseumofArt

13. The‘rommelpot’player,circa1618-20
FortWorth,Texas,TheKimbellArtMuseum

14. Buffoonplayingthelute,circa1623
Paris,MuséeduLouvre

15. ‘Peeckelharing’,1628-30|
Kassel,StaatlicheKunstsammlung

16. Drinkingwomanwithanowlonhershoulder
(MalleBabbe),1630-35|
Berlin,GemäldeGalerie

17. MalleBabbe,detail

18. TheLaughingCavalier,1624|
Londen,WallaceCollection

19. Thelaughingcavalier,detail

20. Thejollytoper,1630|
Amsterdam,Rijksmuseum

21. WillemvanHeythuysen,circa1638|
Frankrijk,Privatecollection

22. Portraitofafamily,1635
Cincinatti,Ohio,CincinattiMuseumofArt

23. Frans Hals
Civic Guards / Militia Pieces in Haarlem

24. OfficierenvandeSint-Jorisschutterij,1616

25. TheofficersoftheCivicGuardofSaintAdriaen
(Cluveniers/TheCalivermen),1627

26. TheOfficersoftheCivicGuardofSaintGeorge,
1627

29. TheregentessesoftheOldMen’sAlmsHouse,
1664

30. TheregentessenoftheOldMen’sAlmsHouse,
1664-Detail

31. TheregentsoftheOldMen’sAlmsHouse,1664

32. TheregentsoftheOldMen’sAlmsHouse,1664
Detail

33. Judith Leyster

34. JudithLeyster(1609-1660),Thejollytoper
(drinker),ca.1629
Haarlem,FransHalsMuseum

36. The discovery of Hals after 1850

37. 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

38. WilliamMerittChase(1849-1916),inzijnatelier,
1880-1916,BezochtHaarlemsamenmetWhistler
in1885

39. EdouardManet(1832-1883),
Unbonbock(portraitofÉmileBelot),1873
|Philadelphia,PhiladelphiaMuseumofArt

41. EdouardManet,BertheMorisot,1872|Parijs

42. EdouardManet,
GeorgesClémanceau,1879-80|FortWorth

43. ClaudeMonet(1840-1926),
Strandscene,1870

44. VincentvanGogh((1853-1890),
Zelfportret,1887|Chicago

45. VincentvanGogh,
Portraitofawoman,1885
Amsterdam,VanGoghMuseum

47. VincentvanGogh,
Korenveldmetcipressen,ca.1889|NewYork