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Frans Hals
Laughing Childcirca 1620-1625

Not on view
Circular oil painting, head portrait of a young child with tousled brown hair, open mouth showing mixed teeth, loose brushwork, against a cream background

Frans Hals, Laughing Child, circa 1620-1625, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Varya and Hans Cohn, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Frans Hals
Southern Netherlands, 1582/83-1666, active Northern Netherlands
Title
Laughing Child
Place Made
Holland
Date Made
circa 1620-1625
Medium
Oil on wood
Dimensions
Overall (Diameter): 11 in. (27.94 cm) Frame: 20 × 20 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (50.8 × 52.07 × 8.89 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Varya and Hans Cohn
Accession Number
AC1992.152.144
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Thomas, Nancy, and Constantina Oldknow, eds. By Judgment of the Eye: The Varya and Hans Cohn Collection. Los Angeles: Hans Cohn, 1991.
  • Slive, Seymour. Frans Hals. 3 vols. New York: Phaidon, 1970.
  • Slive, Seymour. Frans Hals. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1989.