
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001457Portrait of a Lady
by Frans Hals
Inscriptions
Signed and dated: AETAT SUAE 33 / ANO 1627
Provenance
Probably English private collection [W.R. Valentiner stated that it came from an English collection in an expertise dated 16 April 1923 in the curatorial file]; Steinmeyer, Lucerne, by 1921 [see Valentiner 1921]. Henry Reinhardt & Sons, Inc., New York, by 1923 [see letter from Reinhardt to Max Epstein dated 24 April 1923 in curatorial file]; sold to Max Epstein, Chicago, probably in 1923 (died 1954); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.
Exhibition history
New York, Reinhardt Galleries, Loan Exhibition of Paintings from El Greco and Rembrandt to Cézanne and Matisse, 15 Jan. - 29 Jan. 1927, cat. no. 4 (ill.). London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Dutch Art, 1450-1900, Jan. 4 – Mar. 9, 1929, cat. no. 348 Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals, Jan. 10 – Feb. 28, 1935, cat. no. 25. Chicago, The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Max Epstein Memorial Exhibition, May 3 - May 14, 1955, cat. no. 7.
Publications
W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: des Meisters Gemälde (Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Stuttgart, 1921), 199 (ill.), 318. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst), 2nd, rev. ed. (Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt Stuttgart, 1923), 128 (ill.), 315. Max Epstein, Old Masters in the Collection of Max Epstein (Chicago: n.p., 1928), n.p. (ill.). Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Paintings by Frans Hals in the United States,” The Antiquarian 13 no. 2 (September 1929): 33 (ill.), 88, 90. Charles Holms, Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Dutch Art Held in the Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January - March 1929 (London: Oxford University Press, 1930), xxv, and cat. no. 348. Franz Dülberg, Frans Hals: Ein Leben und ein Werk (Stuttgart: Paul Neff Verlag, 1930), 117. W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals Paintings in America (Westport, CT: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1936), 11, no. 43 (ill.). Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 209. Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 no. 55 (September 1966): 203. Marigene Butler, “Portrait of a Lady by Frans Hals,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 5 (1970): 6-21, figs. 1-9. C.C. Cunningham, “Note on a Portrait of a Lady by Frans Hals,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 5 (1970): 5. Seymour Slive, Frans Hals (London: Phaidon, 1970-[74]), vol. 1, 185; vol. 2, pl. 77; vol. 3, cat. no. 52. Marigene Butler, “Porträt einer Dame von Frans Hals. Eine erfolgreiche Anwendung mikroskopischer Untersuchungsmethoden an Farbschichten,” Maltechnik/Restauro 78 (1972): 76-91, figs. 1-10. Claus Grimm, Frans Hals: Entwicklung, Werkanalyse, Gesamtkatalog (Berlin: Mann, 1972), 24-5, 78, 200, no. 29, fig. 46 (detail). Claus Grimm and E. C. Montagni, L’opera completa di Frans Hals (Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1974), 93, no. 54, fig. 54. Janice J. Feldstein and Maureen Smith, Art Institute of Chicago : 100 Masterpieces (Chicago: Art Institute, 1978), 58, fig. 21. John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), 164. Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Grand Rapids, MI: WM B. Eerdmans, 1986), 49, 51. Claus Grimm, Frans Hals: Das Gesamtwerk (Stuttgart: Belser Verlag, 1989), 20, 267n18, 273, cat. no. 35, figs. 8a, 8b. Ingeborg Worm, “Frans Hals” in Dictionary of Art, vol. 14 (London: Macmillan Publisher Ltd., 1996), 93-4. Erik Larsen, “A Newly Established ‘Portrait of a Woman’ by Frans Hals,” Pantheon 56 (1998): 106-7, fig. 2. Jasper Hillegers, “Cornelia Claesdr. Vooght,” in Frans Hals: Eye to Eye with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian, exh. cat. (Haarlem: Frans Halsmuseum, 2013), under cat. no. 13. Clause Grimm, Frans Hals and his Workshop, The Hague, 2023–24, A1.31, accessed July 17, 2024, https://frans-hals-and-his-workshop.rkdstudies.nl/contents/>
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Frans Hals (Dutch, 1582–1666)
- Date
- 1627
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 86.5 × 70.7 cm (34 1/4 × 27 13/16 in.); Framed: 107 × 91.4 × 6.4 cm (42 1/8 × 36 × 2 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- 17th Century
- Place
- Holland
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Max and Leola Epstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1954.287
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