Frans Hals painted this woman half-length and against a grey background, inside an oval stone frame. The ‘frame-in-a-frame’ lends the work a stunning trompe-l’oeil effect. The woman’s dress meets the Calvinist regulations: black (satin or velvet) and white (linen or lace) without any frills. Hals’ paintings demonstrate great virtuosity, largely because of the artist’s fluid handling of the paint and his broad brushstrokes. He worked ‘alla prima’, without drawing directly on the canvas. A rough sketch in grey paint sufficed. Between 1620 and 1630 he was making animated portraits; in the 1640s, he worked at a steadier pace and his colour palette became more subdued. The Portrait of a Woman dates from the beginning of this new phase.
| Artist |
Frans I Hals
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| Title | Portrait of a Woman |
| Date | 1640 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | inscription, year and monogram left of centre: ÆTA SVÆ 53 / AN° 1640 / HF |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1898-B |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Hotel Kums Antwerp 1898 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1898-B |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/293/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300015637
portraits
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300189808 figures (representations) AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A2525
hands on top of each other
Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA2421 head turned to the left - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31B6215 frowned eyebrows Iconclass 31B6251 creased, wrinkled forehead Iconclass 31D1 the ages of man Iconclass 31D17 old woman Iconclass 41D fashion, clothing Iconclass 41D221(CAP) head-gear: cap Iconclass 41D222(COLLAR) neck-gear: collar Iconclass 41D2642 button Iconclass 41D2652 lace Iconclass 47H13 silk (textile) Iconclass 48C5156 frame of painting, etc. Iconclass 61B11 anonymous historical person portrayed Iconclass 61BB111 anonymous historical person portrayed alone - BB - woman Iconclass 61BB2 historical persons - BB - woman Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Frans Hals (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] |
| Portrait de dame, par Frans Hals / Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (nr. 174) |
| Catalogue du musée de peinture de la ville de Gand, 1900 / Louis Maeterlinck. - Gand : Imprimerie Victor Van Doosselaere, 1900 (nr. 95) |
| Frans Hals : Sa vie et son oeuvre / Ernst Willem Moes. - Bruxelles : G. Van Oest & Cie, 1909 (p. 96) |
| Frans Hals : des Meisters Gemälde in 318 Abbildungen / Karl Voll. - Stuttgart : Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1921 (p. 138) |
| Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 65-66) |
| Chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand (exposition itinérante 'Quarante chefs-d'oeuvre du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand' Bruxelles, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 12 février - 6 mars 1949 ; Liège, 12 mars - 3 avril 1949 ; Luxembourg, 9 avril - 1 mai 1949 ; Lille, 14 mai - 12 juin 1949) / Georges Chabot, Paul Eeckhout. - Bruxelles : Editions de la Connaissance, 1949 (p. 5, nr. 22) |
| Guide du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, Orné de 52 reproductions de tableaux : Extrait du guide illustré de Gand / Jos. Casier. - Gand : Anc. Maison d'édition Vanderpoorten, 1949 (p. 24-25) |
| Gemeentelijke kunstschatten, vijftig schilderijen : Inleiding tot de geschiedenis der gemeentelijke musea / Marinette Bruwier, Paul Eeckhout, Jules Bosmant. - Brussel : De Arcade, 1960 (p. 210-213) |
| Frans Hals / Paul Eeckhout. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 82-83) |
| Frans Hals / Jan Pieter Ballegeer. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 338, nr. 736) |
| Frans Hals : Volume three ; catalogue / Seymour Slive. - New York City : Phaidon, 1974 ; Washington : National Gallery of Art (Washington), 1974 (p. 71-72, nr. 136) |
| Tout l'oeuvre peint de Frans Hals / E.C. Montagni, Albert Châtelet. - Paris : Flammarion, 1976 (nr. 143) |
| Frans Hals : Leven, werk, restauratie / Norbert E. Middelkoop, Anne Van Grevenstein-Kruse. - Haarlem : Frans Halsmuseum, 1988 ; Amsterdam : Uniepers Abcoude, 1988 (p. 63 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Robert Hoozee. - Brussel : Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1988 (p. 60, 61) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent = Museum of Fine Arts Ghent / Claudie De Guillebon, Jacques Ostier, Robert Hoozee, Monique Tahon-Vanroose. - Parijs : Association des Amis de "Musées 2000", 1989 (p. 31 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 36, 96-97 (ill.)) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 42 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
| onder vrienden : 225 jaar verzamelaars rond het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 25.11.2023 - 28.04.2024) / Johan De Smet, Frederica Van Dam, Willy Van der Gucht, Manfred Sellink. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2023 ; Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 2023 (p. 71, cat. 71 (ill.)) |
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