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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1930.186
People
Frans Hals, Dutch (Antwerp or Malines 1581 - 1666 Haarlem, Netherlands)
Title
Portrait of a Preacher
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of a Minister of Haarlem
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1625
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Netherlands
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231844

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
61.6 x 51.4 cm (24 1/4 x 20 1/4 in.)
framed: 78 x 67.8 cm (30 11/16 x 26 11/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r. painted in red N. 208

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Stanislaus August Poniatowski, King of Poland (died 1798). Count Grabowski, Warsaw. Alexander Kahanowicz, Brooklyn. [Ehrlich Galleries, New York]. Nettie Naumburg (Mrs. Aaron Naumburg], New York, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1930

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg
Accession Year
1930
Object Number
1930.186
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William R. Valentiner, "The Self-Portraits of Frans Hals", Art in America (1925), XIII, pp. 148-154, p. 153, note 1 (in the possession of Dr. "Kahanswiez, Brooklyn")
  • William R. Valentiner, "Rediscovered Paintings by Frans Hals", Art in America (1928), XVI, pp. 235-249, p. 248
  • "Naumburg Bequest", Notes (Fogg Art Museum), Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, June 1930), Vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 222-225, p. 222
  • William R. Valentiner, "New Additions to the Work of Frans Hals", Art in America (1935), XXIII, pp. 85-103, p. 101
  • William R. Valentiner, An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals, exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, 1935), cat. no. 26, repr.
  • William R. Valentiner, Frans Hals Paintings in America, F. F. Sherman (Westport, CT, 1936), cat. no. 15, repr.
  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY, 1967), cat. 12
  • Seymour Slive, Frans Hals, Phaidon Press (London/New York, 1970-1974), vol. 3, cat. no. 41, pl. 69
  • Andrea Kirsh, "Worlds Below: An Investigation of Infrared Reflectography" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, April 1973), Unpublished, pp. 1-25 passim
  • James N. Carpenter, Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1974), p. 83, cat. 41, ill.
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), no. 188, p. 165, repr.
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 111, 176, repr. b/w cat. no. 120

Exhibition History

  • An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals, Detroit Institute of Arts, 01/10/1935 - 02/28/1935
  • Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings from the Fogg Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 05/08/1967 - 06/11/1967
  • Color in Art: A Tribute to Arthur Pope, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/25/1974 - 06/16/1974

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