Antique Frans Hals The Gypsy Girl La bohémienne Oil Portrait Painting 18"

Description

Early 20th century oil on canvas painting after Frans Hals' work known as "The Gypsy Girl." Depicts a young peasant woman with brown hair and lowf fronted blue bodice (as opposed to the original reddish orange). Beveled wood frame, painted to remeble pickled oak, with rope twist carved details. Gallery sticker from Harley L. Bickmore art collector / dealer to verso; Bickmore was long associated with the Closson Gallery Company, and owner of a gallery on 413 Race Street in Cincinnati.

"The Gypsy Girl, also known as Gypsy Girl or Young Woman (La Bohémienne) (and sometimes erroneously referred to as Malle Babbe) is an oil-on-wood painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1628–1630, and now in the Louvre Museum, in Paris. It is a tronie, a study of facial expression and unusual costume, rather than a commissioned portrait. The display of cleavage was not a common feature of costume seen in public in Hals' time and place. For this reason various art historians have assumed a painting of a prostitute was intended. There is no reason to assume the model was Romani, a 19th-century decision.

Frans Hals the Elder (c. 1582 – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate their homes with works of art. Hals was highly sought after by wealthy burgher commissioners of individual, married-couple, family, and institutional-group portraits. He also painted tronies for the general market." (Source: Wikipedia)

Condition

Good Overall - Gentle wear

Dimensions

16.25" x 1.5" x 18" / Sans Frame - 9.5" x 11" (Width x Depth x Height)