Frans Hals · c.1626-28
Young Man with a Skull
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A young man in a red feathered cap and a heavy grey cloak turns his head and gestures with one open hand while holding a skull in the other, against a plain grey-brown wall. National Gallery, London.
Up to 24 × 27.4 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 Young Man with a Skull
Young Man with a Skull is an oil-on-canvas painting made in 1626-1628 by Frans Hals. It was once thought to show Prince Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick, but is now read as a vanitas, a reminder of the precarious nature of life and the inevitability of death. The National Gallery in London bought it in 1980.
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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