Laughing Boy (painting)

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Laughing Boy
Dutch: Lachende jongen

Artist	Frans Hals
Year	c. 1625
Type	Tronie
Medium	Oil on panel
Dimensions	30.45 cm diameter (11.99 in)
Location	Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands

Laughing Boy (Dutch: Lachende jongen)^[1]^[2] is a circular oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch artist Frans Hals. It belongs to the tronie genre and was painted around 1625. It is in the collection of the Mauritshuis.

Another circular portrait with a laughing boy is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and shows a soap bubble on the right. A third version exists where the boy is grasping a whistle or flute. Several other circular portraits of laughing boys, all painted around the same period, with or without a bubble or a whistle, have been attributed to Hals in the past. Of the twenty or so paintings identified in 1974 by the Hals expert Seymour Slive, he considered only three to be authentic.

Laughing Boy with Flute, Slive catalog nr. 27
Laughing boy with a soap bubble, Slive catalog nr. 28

The Hals expert Claus Grimm rejected the other two and claims only this one is authentic. In his own time, Hals' works were copied by art students. In the late 19th century young artists in the impressionist movement were impressed by the loose brush strokes and wet-in-wet painting technique of these small tondos, and it is possible that a few of the many copies on the art market today date from this later period.

Other boys painted by Hals in round tondos:

Boy with a soap bubble, Louvre Museum
Boy with a glass and a pewter jug, Staatliches Museum Schwerin
Laughing boy with a flute, Staatliches Museum Schwerin

References

^ Laughing Boy, Mauritshuis. Retrieved on 11 December 2014.
^ (in Dutch) Lachende jongen, Mauritshuis. Retrieved on 11 December 2014.

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Laughing Boy on the Mauritshuis website

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Paintings	List of paintings Portrait of a Woman Standing (c. 1610–1615) The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616 (1616) Shrovetide Revellers (c. 1616–1617) Portrait of a Woman Standing (1618–1620) The Rommelpot Player (c. 1618–1620) Catharina Both-van der Eem (1620) Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen (c. 1622) Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart (1623) The Lute Player (1623–1624) Laughing Cavalier (1624) Cunera van Baersdorp (1625) St. John (1625) St. Matthew (1625) St. Luke (1625) St. Mark (1625) Laughing Boy (c. 1625) Two Singing Boys with a Lute and a Music Book (c. 1625) Laughing Boy with Flute (c. 1625) Boy with a Glass and a Lute (1626) Laughing Boy with a Flute (1626) The Smoker (1626) Portrait of Anna van der Aar (1626) Portrait of Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa (1626) Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer (c. 1626) The Banquet of the Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1627 (1627) The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627 (1627) Portrait of a Woman in a Chair (1627) Laughing Fisherboy (1628) Girl Singing (c. 1628) Young Man with a Skull (1626–1628) The Fisher Boy (c. 1630) Fisher Boy with Basket (c. 1630) Man with a Beer Jug (c. 1630) Smiling Fishergirl (c. 1630) Willem van Heythuysen Posing with a Sword (1625–1630) The Gypsy Girl (1628–1630) Peeckelhaeringh (1628–1630) The Merry Drinker (c. 1628–1630) Cornelia Claesdr Voogt (1631) The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1633 (1633) Portrait of a Man in a Yellowish-Gray Jacket (1633) Portrait of Sara Wolphaerts van Diemen (c. 1630–1633) Portrait of Catharina Brugmans (1634) Portrait of a Man (1634) Portrait of a Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat (c. 1625–1635) Malle Babbe (c. 1633–1635) Lucas de Clercq (1635) Portrait of Feyntje Steenkiste (1635) Portrait of Hylck Boner (1635) Portrait of a Dutch Family (c. 1635) Meagre Company (1633–1637) Claes Duyst van Voorhout (1638) Maria Pietersdr Olycan (1638) Pieter Tjarck (1638) Portrait of a Woman (Marie Larp) (c. 1635–1638) Maritge Claesdr. Voogt (1639) The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639 (1639) Portrait of a Man with a Glove (1640) Portrait of Mrs. Bodolphe (1643) Portrait of Dorothea Berck (1644) Family Group in a Landscape (c. 1645–1648) Portrait of Stephan Geraedts, Husband of Isabella Coymans (c. 1650–1652) Portrait of a Man (Frick) (c. 1660) Portrait of a Man (Jacquemart-André (c. 1660) Regents of the Old Men's Almshouse (1664) Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse (c. 1664)
Possible attribution	The Fingernail Test (c. 1626)
Museums	Frans Hals Museum
People	Harmen Hals (son) Frans Hals the Younger (son) Jan Hals (son) Reynier Hals (son) Nicolaes Hals (son) Dirck Hals (brother) Karel van Mander (teacher) Théophile Thoré-Bürger Seymour Slive Claus Grimm
Related	Marriage pendant portraits by Frans Hals Catalogues raisonnés 1974 1989 Frans Hals (song)

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