File:HALS, Frans - Portrait of a man, 1630.jpg

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Frans Hals: Portrait of a man  wikidata:Q17818715 reasonator:Q17818715
Artist
Frans Hals  (1582/1583–1666)  wikidata:Q167654 s:en:Author:Frans Hals
 
Frans Hals
Alternative names
Frans Franchoisz Hals
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 1582 or 1583
date QS:P,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1583-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
 26 August 1666 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Antwerp Haarlem
Work period between circa 1603 and circa 1666
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1603-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1666-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Haarlem (1608–1616); Antwerp (1616–1616); Haarlem (1617–1666) Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q167654
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Portrait of a Man Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of a Man Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of a Man Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Lit,"Ritratto di un uomo."
label QS:Lhu,"Férfi portré"
label QS:Let,"Mehe portree"
label QS:Lru,"Мужской портрет"
label QS:Lcy,"Portread o Ddyn"
label QS:Lpt,"Retrato de um homem"
label QS:Lfa,"چهرهٔ یک مرد"
label QS:Lda,"Portræt af en mand"
label QS:Lsl,"Moški portret"
label QS:Lja,"男の肖像"
label QS:Lpl,"Portret mężczyzny"
label QS:Lro,"Portret de bărbat"
label QS:Lnl,"Portret van een onbekende man"
label QS:Lvec,"Ritrato de un omo"
label QS:Lde,"Porträt eines Mannes."
label QS:Lfr,"portrait d'un homme inconnu"
label QS:Lcs,"Portrét muže"
label QS:Lmk,"Портрет на човек"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description

This portrait of a man (whose age is given as 36 in the inscription) is striking for its compositional simplicity and tonal unity - both aspects indicative of the artist's stylistic progression during the 1630s. The figure seems to burst out of the lower edge of the canvas. The sense of a strong physical presence is due to the spiral effect created by the jutting elbow on the viewer's left and the hand holding a pair of gloves that extends from the tautened cloth on the right. Gloves held in the hand, as opposed to being worn, are regarded as a gesture of friendship, which in this case is being offered to the viewer.

It is evident that Hals painted very fast, impulsively and fluently, varying the texture of the raised paint surface so that the treatment of the clothes and fabric is in marked contrast with the rather thinly painted facial features. Colour accents are at this stage reduced in value. Hals succeeds in making the impermanent seem permanent and the mobile to be immobile. This illusion is the equivalent of a freeze frame in cinematic technique. Given such visual pyrotechnics and such technical dexterity that increased with the years, it is no wonder that he was so admired in France during the nineteenth century by artists such as Edouard Manet and Vincent van Gogh.

Inscribed upper right near the head: AETAT SVAE 36 / AN. 1630

Catalogue entry from Royal Treasures, A Golden Jubilee Celebration, London 2002[1]
Date 1630
date QS:P571,+1630-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 116.1 cm (45.7 in); width: 90.1 cm (35.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,116.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,90.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1459037
Accession number
RCIN 405349
Place of creation Haarlem Edit this at Wikidata
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by 1795
date QS:P,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Royal Collection
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The author died in 1666, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

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  1. ↑ Royal Collection

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