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| The Smoker |
Artist:Frans Hals (Dutch, Antwerp 1582/83–1666 Haarlem)
Date:ca. 1623–25
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:Octagonal, 18 3/8 x 19 1/2 in. (46.7 x 49.5 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889
The loose brushwork on this octagonal panel—its original shape—captures the bustle of a tavern interior as caught in a corner of the viewer's eye. Although the painting's attribution to Hals has been questioned occasionally, the execution is entirely typical of his less ambitious genre pictures dating from the 1620s.
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