Talk:Frans Hals catalogue raisonné, 1989

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Singing Girl

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The list article includes, at Cat. no. 52, the small lozenge-format Singing Girl (a.k.a. Girl Singing and A Girl Singing from a Book). I cannot find any mention of this painting in Claus Grimm's 1989 catalogue. (I am looking at his German original, titled Frans Hals Das Gesamtwerk; I assume the Dutch and English versions of Grimm's catalogue include exactly the same pictures as the German.) In Frans Hals Das Gesamtwerk, no. 52 is the Bildnis des Cornelis Coning (Portrait of Cornelis Coning). Presumably the inclusion of the Singing Girl in the list article is just an ordinary mistake (we all make them sometimes!); the adjacent paintings 51 and 53 do correspond to Grimm's numbering. I am taking the Singing Girl out of the list and putting Cornelis Coning in her place at no. 52—and I hope I've got this right. Frans Fowler (talk) 01:00, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Thanks! Very odd mistake and very old one too! I had a quick check on Commons and Wikidata but the mistake was never made in either of those places. Weird one. Good catch and a bit sad it took so long to spot it (8 years? Whew!). Jane (talk) 04:39, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply
Between you, me, and the gatepost, I wonder whether the mistake might be Herr Grimm's—not yours at all. Does he say anywhere (that you know) why he rejected the Girl Singing? Perhaps he had just never met her when he compiled his Gesamtwerk; she seems to have spent a lot of her time in private collections. I made her acquaintance in London earlier this year at the National. Did she visit the Rijksmuseum too? She might also be stopping by at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin soon. Anyway, she seems Frans-Hals enough to my unprofessional eye. She's charming. And she didn't look at all out of place in the list article, so it's really little surprise no one noticed till now that she didn't actually belong there. I caught her hiding in the list while I was doing some research for an article about her. I appreciate the work you do on various wiki projects. Thank you. ---- Frans Fowler (talk) 07:07, 8 July 2024 (UTC)Reply