From the Rijksmuseum:
A selection of around fifty key works has been made from Frans Hals’ extensive oeuvre. These include works from the Rijksmuseum’s own collection – The Merry Drinker, Portrait of a Couple – and a number of special loans, for which we are extremely grateful. These include The Laughing Cavalier from the Wallace Collection in London, a work that normally never travels, as well as Catharina Hooft with her Nurse and Malle Babbe (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin), Family Group in a Landscape (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid) and Fruit and Vegetable Seller (Private Collection Bridgenorth). The exhibition features another first: the group portrait The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard from 1616 (Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem), will be seen outside the city of Haarlem for the first time ever.
CODART is also hosting a CODARTfocus event in partnership with the Rijksmuseum:
On Monday 11 March, CODART partners with the Rijksmuseum to organize a CODARTfocus meeting dedicated to the monographic exhibition Frans Hals. The Haarlem painter is regarded as one of the most innovative artists of the seventeenth century as can be seen in the almost 50 paintings that will be on view. Exclusive to the Rijksmuseum exhibition will be the inclusion of paintings such as the Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard from 1616 and Regentesses of the Old Men’s Alms House (Frans Hals Museum), the Portraits of Lucas de Clerq and Feyntje van Steenkiste (Rijksmuseum) and the Laughing Boy (Mauritshuis).
Besides an exclusive visit to the exhibition (after opening hours), the CODARTfocus will include three lectures by Friso Lammertse and Tamar van Riessen, who curated the exhibition in Amsterdam, Bart Cornelis, curator of the exhibition at the National Gallery in London and Katja Kleinert who, together with Erik Eising, is responsible for the upcoming Berlin venue of the exhibition. Please see the full program of the event for details. For practical information and the registration form, please visit the Participate page.