Attributed to Frans Hals (c.1580-1666)
Attributed to Frans Hals (c.1580-1666)

Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a black coat and collar, holding a book

Details
Attributed to Frans Hals (c.1580-1666)
Portrait of a gentleman, half-length, in a black coat and collar, holding a book
oil on panel
14.3/8 x 11¾ in. (36.5 x 29.9 cm.)
Provenance
Paul von Schwabach, Berlin, 1914, no. 67.
Anon. Sale, Muller, Amsterdam, 11-18 March 1952, lot 695.
with Schaeffer Galleries, New York.
H. Becker, Dortmund.
with Cramer.
Literature
E.W. Moes, 1909, no. 168.
W. van Bode and M.J. Binder, Frans Hals: sein Leben und seine Erke, I, II, Berlin, 1914, no. 268, as Frans Hals.
W.R. Valntiner, Frans Hals: Des Meisters Gemälde, Berlin and Leipzig, 1923, p.285.
F. Dlberg, Frans Hals: sein Leben und sein Werk, Stuttgart, 1930, p.206.
G.D. Gratama, Frans Hals, The Hague, 1943, no.115.
R. Fritz, Sammlung Becker: I, Gemälde Alter Meister, Dortmund, 1967, no.67, illustrated, as Frans Hals.
S. Slive, Frans Hals, Cambridge, Mass., 1970, p.150, no. D62, fig. 183, under 'Doubtful and wrongly attributed Paintings'.
Exhibited
Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, Frans Hals. Tentoonstelling ter gelegenheid van het 75 - jarig bestaen van het Gemeentelijk Museum te Haarlem, 1 July - 30 September 1937, no. 112, illustrated.

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