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HALS, Frans: Singing Boy with a Flute

🖼 Singing Boy with a Flute, 1623-25
Oil on canvas
62 × 55 cm
Berlin, Germany

Caught mid-melody, a boy tilts his head with infectious joy, his flute raised as golden light catches his animated face. Hals captures spontaneous emotion through loose brushwork, pioneering the informal portrait and celebrating everyday life over formal dignity—a radical shift in Dutch Golden Age art.

Frans Hals
Frans Hals
Jaap van der Veen
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