FRAN HALS (1584-1666) PORTRAIT OF A MAN STANDING Canvas 321/2 inches by 45 inches

  THREE-QUARTER length.    He is seen in full face, 

and looks at the spector. His left arm, holding his, gloves, hangs down almost straight; the right hand is not seen, but is obviously pressed to his side. He has long dark-brown hair and a slight mustache. He is in black with a close-fitting white collar and white wristband. His white peeps out at the throat and the sleeves. The sitter is not the famous Admiral Michael Adrian's de Ruyter, as was formerly supposed, but a simple citizen. It is a masterly painting--executed, one almost assume, without any preliminary sketch, but drawn with the brush.

    Quoted from de Groot.
  Signed at the top with monogram.
  Mentioned by C. Hofstede de Groot's Catalogue Raisonne
    Vol. III Page 73, No. 247.

" " Joseph Peladan, Fran Hals, page 79, plate 64. " " Philip L. Hale, Jan Vermeer of Delft. " " Dr. Bode, Frans Hals, Vol. II, Plate CLXI. " " Davies, Franz Hals, Plate 55. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857, No. 671 " " the Portrait Exhition, The Hague, 1903, No.3 " " the Guildhall, London, 1903, No. 175. " " the Royal Academy, Old Masters, 1907, No.47 From the Collection of Earl Spencer, Althrop Park.

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