
Frans Hals (1582–1666)Dutch Golden Age · 1620s–1650sPainted here after this hand, never after their pictures
Dutch Golden Age 1582–1666
Frans Hals
Laughing, alla prima, the brush still wet.
Gone 360 years, so the hand is everyone’s. We describe it to the painters: the light, the ground, the palette, the stroke. The picture is yours.
Default palette: Delft Blue
What shall we hang here?The line above becomes the first.
Painted here 3 judged
The hand, three times over
Each of these was painted in this studio in this hand and passed the art gate before it hung. Nothing here is a photograph of a painting.






