Boy with a Glass and a Lute
{{Short description|Painting by Frans Hals}}
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Boy with a Glass and a Lute is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1626 and now in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.
Painting
The painting shows a boy with a lute who is holding a glass above his head with his right hand; with his left hand, he balances a lute which rests on a table.
Name
In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot wrote:
82. THE LAUGHING MANDOLINE-PLAYER. M. 214. A young man with long dishevelled hair sits holding up in his right hand a glass full of wine, at which he looks with a smile. His dark costume is trimmed with blue; his cap hangs on the back of his head, to the left. With his left hand he holds up one end of a mandoline, the other end of which rests on a table. Signed on the right with the monogram; panel, 36 inches by 30 inches.Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1891, No. 72.[https://archive.org/stream/catalogueraisonn03hofsuoft#page/22/mode/1up Hofstede de Groot] on The Laughing Mandolin Player; catalog number 82
Hals' positioning of a figure looking upwards was common to many of his genre paintings of the 1620s:
File:1623 Hals Junger Mann und Frau in einem Gasthaus anagoria.JPG|Yonker Ramp and his sweetheart
File:Frans Hals - Luitspelende nar.jpg|The Lute Player (Hals)
File:Boy Playing A Violin hq.jpg|Boy Playing A Violin, today attributed to the "Master of the upward glance" or "School of Judith Leyster and Frans Hals"
This painting is probably related to The Fingernail Test:
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File:Frans Hals - Boy with a glass and a lute.jpg
See also
References
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Category:Paintings by Frans Hals
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Category:Musical instruments in art
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