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image of Portrait of a Gentleman
Frans Hals (artist)
Dutch, c. 1582/1583 - 1666
Portrait of a Gentleman, 1650/1652
oil on canvas
overall: 114 x 85 cm (44 7/8 x 33 7/16 in.)
Widener Collection
1942.9.29
Not on View
From the Tour: Frans Hals
Object 6 of 7

1907Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century.... 8 vols., translated from the German edition. London, 1907-1917: 3(1910):84, no. 294.
1909Moes, Ernst Wilhelm. Frans Hals: sa vie et son oeuvre. Trans. by J. de Bosschere. Brussels, 1909: 107, no. 162.
1909Arundel Club. Sixth Year's Publications. London, 1909: no. 9, repro.
1910"New Prints." The Burlington Magazine 16 (January 1910): 237-238.
1911Sedelmeyer Gallery. Illustrated Catalogue of the Eleventh Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters. Paris, 1911: no. 11.
1913Widener 1913, unpaginated, repro.
1914Bode, Wilhelm von, and Moritz Julius Binder. Frans Hals: sein Leben und seine Werke. 2 vols. Berlin, 1914: 2:66, no. 247, pl. 156 (also 1914 English ed., Frans Hals: His Life and Work, Berlin, 2:19, no. 247, pl. 156).
1914Hundred Masterpieces of the Sedelmeyer Gallery. Paris, 1914: 40, no.18, repro.
1921Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Frans Hals, des Meisters Gemälde. Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben, 28. Stuttgart and Berlin, 1921: 320, repro. 242 (also 1923 2nd, rev. ed., Stuttgart, Berlin, and Leipzig, 321, repro. 256).
1923Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1923 (unpaginated) unpaginated, repro.
1930Dülberg, Franz. Frans Hals: ein Leben und ein Werk. Stuttgart, 1930: 194, 198, repro. 196.
1931Paintings in the Collection of Joseph Widener at Lynnewood Hall. Intro. by Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, 1931: 84, repro.
1932Hind, Arthur M. Rembrandt: Being the Substance of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures Delivered before Harvard University 1930-1931. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1932: 89, pl. 64.
1935Tietze, Hans. Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika. Vienna, 1935: 336, repro. 164 (also 1939 English ed., Masterpieces of European Painting in America. New York).
1936Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Frans Hals Paintings in America. Westport, Connecticut, 1936: unpaginated, no. 97, repro.
1938Waldmann, E. "Die Sammlung Widener." Pantheon 22 (1938): 335-343.
1942Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 5.
1948Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 50, repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 312, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 66.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 58, repro.
1970Slive 1970-1974, 2(1970):pl. 302; 3(1974):88, 99, cat. no. 191.
1972Grimm, Claus. Frans Hals: Entwicklung, Werkanalyse, Gesamtkatolog. Berlin, 1972: 110-111, 155, 205, no. 145, figs. 163, 167.
1974Montagni, E. C. L'opera completa di Frans Hals. Milan, 1974: 106, no. 183, repro. (also 1976 French ed., Tout l'oeuvre peint de Frans Hals, Paris).
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 170, repro.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 268-269, no. 355, color repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 268, no. 349, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 197, repro.
1986Sutton 1986, 309.
1989Slive, Seymour, et al. Frans Hals. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem. London, 1989: no. 71.
1990Grimm, Claus. Frans Hals: The Complete Work. New York, 1990: 189, fig. 69, 194-195, 289, no. 135, repro. (Trans. Jürgen Riehle from Frans Hals: das Gesamtwerk, Stuttgart, 1989).
1995Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 89-91, color repro. 90.

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