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image of Portrait of a Young Man Frans Hals (artist)
Dutch, c. 1582/1583 - 1666
Portrait of a Young Man, 1646/1648
oil on canvas
overall: 68 x 55.4 cm (26 3/4 x 21 13/16 in.) framed: 103.2 x 91.4 x 14.6 cm (40 5/8 x 36 x 5 3/4 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.71
Not on View
From the Tour: Frans Hals
Object 4 of 7
1736Walpole, Horace. "A Catalogue of the Honorable Sir Robert Walpole's Collection of Pictures." Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1736 manuscript.
1747Walpole, Horace. Aedes Walpolianae: or, A Description of the Collection of Pictures at Houghton-Hall in Norfolk. London, 1747: 40 (also 1752 rev. 2nd ed., London).
1809Gilpin, William. Observations on Several Parts of the Counties of Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex. London, 1809: 69.
1838Livret de la Galerie Impérial de l'Ermitage de Saint Petersbourg. Saint Petersburg, 1838: 2:254, no. 26, as Self-Portrait.
1863Köhne, Baron B. de. Ermitage Impérial, Catalogue de la Galerie des Tableaux. Saint Petersburg, 1863: 2:165, no. 770, as Portrait of Frans Hals (1870 ed., 2:123,no. 770; 1895 ed., 2:122-123,no. 770, repro.; 1991 ed., 2:139-140,no. 770, repro.)
1864Waagen, Gustav Friedrich. Die Gemäldesammlung in her kaiserlichen Ermitage zu St. Petersburg nebst Bemerkungen über andere dortige Kunstsammlungen. Munich, 1864: 172, no. 770.
1883Bode, Wilhelm von. Studien zur Geschichte der holländischen Malerei. Braunschweig, 1883: 90, 101, no. 128.
1885Semenoff, M. P. Études sur l'histoire de la peinture néerlandaise. 2 vols. Saint Petersburg, 1885: 1:254, as Portrait of Frans Hals the Younger.
1896Knackfuss, Hermann. Frans Hals. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1896: 52, repro. (also 1923 ed., Bielefeld, 64, repro.)
1902Davies, Gerald S. Frans Hals. London, 1902: 144, no. 770 (also 1908 rev. ed., 139, no. 770).
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): 88.
1909Moes, Ernst Wilhelm. Frans Hals: sa vie et son oeuvre. Trans. by J. de Bosschere. Brussels, 1909: 108, no. 180 or 182.
1909Wrangell, Le baron Nicolas. Les Chefs-d'oeuvre de la galerie de tableaux de l'Hermitage Impérial à St-Pétersbourg. London, 1909: repro. 145.
1912Péladan, Joséphin. Frans Hals 1580(?)-1666. Paris, 1912: 89-90, repro. opposite 162.
1914Bode, Wilhelm von, and Moritz Julius Binder. Frans Hals: sein Leben und seine Werke. 2 vols. Berlin, 1914: 2:62, no. 213, pl. 136 (also English ed., Frans Hals: His Life and Work, 2:15, no. 213, pl. 136.
1921Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Frans Hals, des Meisters Gemälde. Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben, 28. Stuttgart and Berlin, 1921: 320, no. 219, repro. (also 1923 ed., Stuttgart, Berlin, and Leipzig, 320, 234, repro.).
1930Dülberg, Franz. Frans Hals: ein Leben und ein Werk. Stuttgart, 1930: 186.
1936Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Frans Hals Paintings in America. Westport, Connecticut, 1936: no. 91, repro.
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 95-96.
1941Trivas, Numa S. The Paintings of Frans Hals. London and New York, 1941: 55, no. 92, repro. no. 123.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 240, repro. 24.
1946Gratama, Gerrit David. Frans Hals. The Hague, 1946: 98, repro.
1949Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 78, repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 311, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 65.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 58, repro.
1970Slive 1970-1974, 1(1970):52, 160-161; 2(1970):fig. 256; 3(1974):86-87, fig. 60 (monogram).
1972Grimm, Claus. Frans Hals: Entwicklung, Werkanalyse, Gesamtkatolog. Berlin, 1972: 107, 205, no. 134, repro. no. 150.
1974Montagni, E. C. L'opera completa di Frans Hals. Milan, 1974: 105, no. 171, 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, no. 352, repro.
1976Gerson, Hoorst. "The Frans Hals Catalogue." The Burlington Magazine 118 (June 1976): 422-424.
1981Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Jan Vermeer. New York, 1981: 14-15, repro. (also 1988 2nd rev. ed., 100, fig. 6).
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 268, no. 346, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 197, repro.
1985Jackson-Stops, Gervase, ed. The Treasure Houses of Britain: Five Hundred Years of Private Patronage and Art Collecting. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985: 324.
1990Grimm, Claus. Frans Hals: The Complete Work. New York, 1990: 241-242, 257, fig. 105a, 288, no. 129, repro. (Trans. Jürgen Riehle from Frans Hals: das Gesamtwerk, Stuttgart, 1989).
1991Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 93, color repro.
1995Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 83-85, color repro. 84.
2011Fiedler, Susanne and Torsten Knuth. "Vexierbilder einer Biographie: Dr. Heinz Mansfeld (1899-1959)." Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 126 (2011):307.

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