File:Frans Hals - Wedding portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laan.jpg

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Summary

Frans Hals: Portrait of a Couple probably Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen

Artist



Alternative names	Frans Franchoisz Hals
Description	Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death	1582 or 1583 date QS:P,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1582-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1583-00-00T00:00:00Z/9	26 August 1666
Location of birth/death	Antwerp	Haarlem
Work period	between circa 1603 and circa 1666 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1603-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1666-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location	Haarlem (1608–1616); Antwerp (1616–1616); Haarlem (1617–1666)
Authority file	: Q167654 VIAF: 100165653 ISNI: 000000011453225X ULAN: 500027794 LCCN: n78091972 NLA: 35164870 WorldCat

Title

Portrait of a Couple, Probably Isaac Abrahamsz Massa and Beatrix van der Laen

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Depicted people

Date

1622

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 140 cm (55.1 in)

; width: 166.5 cm (65.5 in)

Collection

Rijksmuseum

	Native name	Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
	Location	Amsterdam
	Coordinates	52° 21′ 36″ N, 4° 53′ 07″ E
	Established	1800
	Website	rijksmuseum.nl
	Authority file	: Q190804 VIAF: 159624082 ISNI: 0000000121961335 ULAN: 500246547 LCCN: n79007489 NLA: 36126463 WorldCat

Current location

room 7

Accession number

SK-A-133 (Rijksmuseum)

Place of creation

Haarlem

Object history

circa 1622: commissioned by Isaac Abrahamsz. Massa (1586-1643), Haarlem/Lisse (?)

6 April 1702: sale of the collection of Jan Six , unsold

by 25 November 1851: Jhr. H. Six van Hillegom
25 November 1851: purchased by Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, at an anonymous sale at an unknown auction house, Amsterdam, lot no. 15

Exhibition history

Masterpieces of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Portrait Painting, National Gallery, London, 27 June 2007–16 September 2007.

References

Source/Photographer

Unknown source

Other versions

File:Frans Hals - Portret van een stel in een landschap - Google Art Project.jpg
Version from www.googleartproject.com

File:Frans Hals - Married Couple in a Garden - WGA11066.jpg
Version from www.wga.hu

File:Frans Hals.Wedding portrait.jpg
Photographic reproduction by Wikimedia Commons


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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:49, 29 March 2009	3,238 × 2,777 (4.25 MB)	Jan Arkesteijn	higher resolution, finetuned hue
	08:01, 17 November 2007	1,600 × 1,355 (313 KB)	Frank Schulenburg
	15:48, 19 May 2005	2,024 × 1,714 (242 KB)	File Upload Bot (Eloquence)	{{Painting\| \|Title=<br /> ''de:'' Porträt eines jungen Paar \|Technique=<br /> ''de:'' Öl auf Leinwand \|Dimensions=<br /> ''de:'' 140 × 166,5 cm \|Location=<br /> ''de:'' Amsterdam \|Country=<br /> ** ''de:'' Niederlande (Holland) \|Gallery=<br