Hals France

The Protestant church welcomed large marriages, considering, unlike the Catholic Church, it was them, and not abstinence, the cornerstone of public morality. The Institute of the Family was highly respected

A man looking at us from a portrait, immediately produces a very nice impression. He seems calm, benevolent and self-confident. Peter Van den Brocke is known for having become one

The group portrait – “Arrows of the Guild of St. Adrian” – was written by Hals in 1633. The boisterous vitality of the 1627 paintings gives way to a place

This portrait is one of the most famous in the history of Western European painting. The image created by Hals, bribes the viewer with its freshness and immediacy. It can

The portrait of Jasper Schade van Vestrum is a perfect example of the late work of Frans Hals. The painting is distinguished by the subtlety of psychological characteristics and picturesque

Genre scenes have always been popular in Holland. An honest toiler – be it a merchant or an artisan – loved the simple instructiveness of these pictures. Traditionally, each of

The genre of a pair portrait was very popular in Holland, and Hals performed about 30 similar orders for his life. It is believed that the Dutch loved the twin

In fact, this portrait is not a portrait: although the young man is often identified as Hamlet, the picture is most likely a traditional for Dutch art allegory “Vanitas”, that

Khalsu was given a special gift to portray children. About the children of Hals, his contemporary Hans Houbraken wrote that they “are distinguished by liveliness, curiosity, they love singing and

It is possible that for this joyful picture Hal’su was posed by his own children. Kharmen, his son from his first marriage, was in 1620 nine years old, and Sarah,

The most significant features of the portrait of the regents are the completed, as it were, final expression in the portrait of the regent, the wealthy warders of the almshouse.

Custom portraits Hals almost always wrote in his studio, and tried to seat the customer so that it was lit to the left. At that time among Dutch artists, muted

Frans Hals was one of the most famous painters of the Dutch Golden Age. The master of the portrait genre created more than 900 works, in which he introduced children,

The portrait of the regents depicts, besides the old servant, five men, very different in appearance, character and spiritual possibilities. Full of hidden, but frighteningly devastating energy, an elderly man

In this work, Hals created an emphatically sensual image. Gypsy – with bare head, loose hair and bold decollete – desperately unlike prudish and dry virtuous matrons, whom we meet

Hals spent a lot of time in the restaurants and pubs in Harlem. But to argue that in taverns he only did that he was drinking, you can not. Especially

“Banquet of officers of the company of St. George” – was written in 1616, when the artist was about thirty years old. This huge canvas – the first monumental work

Pictures of Dutch masters of the XVII century usually paint an image of a calm and measured life filled with works and innocent pleasures. However, not everything was so serene

Painting Frans Halsa as if soaked in the juices of his modern Holland, a young burgher republic. People in the artist’s paintings are full of vital energy. The military depicted

“Banquet of officers of the company of St. Adrian”. The large canvas strikes an unusually light, slightly chilly color, it is full of silvery daylight and air. This transparent, flickering

The picture “Potter-musician”, 1618-22 researchers for a long time considered a copy. Only with the restoration, undertaken in 1988, it became clear that this is the original brush of Khals.