The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83-1666), whose portraits and genre scenes were famous in his lifetime for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork. Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum presents 13 paintings by Hals, including two lent from private collections, and several works by other Netherlandish masters.
Frans Hals is one of the most familiar and accessible of the Old Master painters. His name is second only to Rembrandt's in The Netherlands and equals Vermeer's in its evocation of the Golden Age of Dutch art.
The exhibition focuses primarily on the Metropolitan Museum's 11 autograph paintings by Hals, which represent the full range of his work. Several of the Museum's paintings by Hals are famous, especially the so-called Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart (1623). Also included in the exhibition are two loans from private collections in New York-the small, exquisite Portrait of Samuel Ampzing (1630), on copper, and the well-known The Fisher Girl (1630-32).
Date: from July 26 to October 10, 2011.
Place: 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028-0198. USA.
Hours: from Tuesday to Thursday from 9.30am to 5.30pm. Fridays and Saturdays from 9.30am to 9.00pm. Sundays from 9.30am to 5.30pm.
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