Frans Hals · c.1623-24
The Lute Player
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A smiling young jester in a red and black striped costume and a red and yellow cap rolls his eyes upward as he plays a lute against a plain grey-green wall, his monogram F.H. at upper right. Louvre, Paris.
Up to 16 × 18.3 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Lute Player
The Lute Player is an oil-on-canvas painting of 1623 or 1624 by the Haarlem painter Frans Hals, now in the Louvre. It shows a smiling actor in a jester's costume playing a lute, and is a good example of Hals's rough style of loose brushstrokes. The half-length lute player came to the Northern Netherlands from Italy through Dirck van Baburen's lute player of 1622. Gustave de Rothschild bought the painting in 1873 and it stayed in the family until 1984.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Frans Hals
Frans Hals the Elder was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate their homes with works of art. Hals was highly sought after by wealthy burgher commissioners of individual, married-couple, family, and institutional-group portraits. He also painted tronies for the general market.
All Frans Hals prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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