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HALS, Frans: Fisher Boy

🖼 Fisher Boy, 1630-32
Oil on canvas
72 × 58 cm
Dublin, Ireland

Luminous brushwork captures a grinning boy amid fishing gear, his face radiant against dark backgrounds. Hals's spontaneous technique and celebration of ordinary folk revolutionized Dutch portraiture in the seventeenth century.

Frans Hals
Frans Hals
Jaap van der Veen
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