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Creator
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Circle of Frans Hals (1581-1666)
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Title
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Head of a Girl
[Previously titled Portrait of Sara and Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter Sara]
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Description
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Oil on oval panel
10 ¼ x 8 in. (c. 26 x 20.3 cm.)
Signed with monogram (lower right)
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Provenance
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Earl Spencer, Althorp Park, London. Peter A.B. Widener (1834-1915), Philadelphia, to November 1915, by inheritance to his son; Joseph Early Widener (1871-1943), Philadelphia, to February 1923, traded to; [M. Knoedler & Co., New York, and Frederick Muller & Co., Amsterdam, (sale, Amsterdam, Frederick Muller & Co., 10 July 1923, lot 109, sold to)]; Sabyns. [Possibly Paul Bottenwieser, New York, before January 1935, possibly sold to]; Mrs. Julius H. (Lillian Henkel) Haass (1879-1960), Detroit, to 1957. [Possibly with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1957]. Mrs. Julius H. (Lillian Henkel) Haass (1879-1960), Detroit, consigned and sold February 1957 to; [Newhouse Galleries, New York and Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York, sold May 1958 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. [1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.
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Auction Catalogues
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1923 – Frederick Muller & Cie, Amsterdam, Catalogue d’une Vente Importante de Tableaux Anciens Provenant des Collections Jonkheer J.W. Six Van Vromade – P.A.B. Widener, d’une Ancienne Collection de St. Petersbourg, de la Collection d’Oldenbourt, etc., 10 July 1923, lot 109, Portrait de Jeune Fille sold for ƒ16,000.
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Exhibitions
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1935 – Detroit, MI, The Detroit Institute of Arts, An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals, 10 January – 28 February 1935, no. 16, illus. Lent by Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass, Detroit, titled Head of a Girl in Profile.
1949 – Detroit, MI, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Masterpieces of Painting from Detroit Private Collections, 23 April – 22 May 1949, pl. 13, illus. Lent by Mrs. Lillian Henkel Haass, titled Portrait of the Artist’s Daughter Sara.
1958 – Indianapolis, IN – San Diego, CA, The Young Rembrandt and His Times. A Loan Exhibition of Dutch Painting of the First Four Decades of the Seventeenth Century, 14 February-23 March, 1958, and 11 April-18 May 1958, no. 49, illus.
1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, no.16, illus.
1965 – Indianapolis, Leah Ransburg Fine Arts Center, Indiana Central College, Paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington, 2 – 10 October 1965, no. 7, illus.
1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, p. 48, illus.
1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, no. 21, illus.
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References
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Moes, E.W. Frans Hals Sa Vie et Son Oeuvre. Bruxelles: Librairie Nationale d’Art et d’Histoire G. Van Oest & Cie, 1909, no. 251 d.
Hofstede de Groot, C. A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century Based on the Work of John Smith. Vol. 3, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910, nos.120, 365, pp. 33, 106-7.
Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, Early German, Dutch & Flemish Schools. With an Introduction by Wilhelm R. Valentiner, and Biographical and Descriptive Notes by C. Hofstede de Groot and Wilhelm R. Valentiner. Philadelphia: Privately printed, 1913, pl.14.
Bode, Wilhelm von. Frans Hals. His Life and Work. Vol. 1, London: The Berlin Photographic Company, 1914, p.29, no. 37, pl. 15B, illus.
Valentiner, W.R. Frans Hals des Meisters Gemälde in 318 Abbildungen. Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben, Vol. 28. Stuttgart & Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1921, p.77, illus., p.331.
Dülberg, Franz. Frans Hals Ein Leben und Ein Werk. Stuttgart: 1930, p.110, illus. p.112.
Valentiner, W.F. Frans Hals Paintings in America. Westport, CT: Frederick Fairchild Sherman, 1936, no. 31, illus.
Richardson, E.P. “The Young Rembrandt and His Times, in Indianapolis.” The Art Quarterly (XXI No.3 Autumn 1958): 291.
Slive, Seymour. Frans Hals. National Gallery of Art: Kress Foundation Studies in the History of European Art. London: Phaidon, 1974, Vol. 3, D 67, pp.151-2.
Grimm, Claus, and E.C. Montagni. L’opera completa di Frans Hals. Milan: Rizzoli, 1974, no. 293, pp. 115, 117.
The Getty Research Institute Photo Study Collection, Los Angeles, CA: 76.P.60, Renaissance to Modern, ND644 Box 447: DUTCH, HALS, FRANS I (c. 1580-1666): Paintings—Portraits—unidentified females without ruffs. Hals, Frans, Head of a Girl. Photo (Duits Collection).
The Frick Collection, Frick Art Reference Library Archives, Digital Collections, Photoarchive, New York.
Frick Set 1: Frans Hals (the Elder): Photo from Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener, 1913, pl.14
Frick Set 2: ‘Photo Gift of Newhouse Galleries’, NY.
Frick Set 3: Unframed. ‘Photo unidentified photographic source 15504; Gift, M. Knoedler and Company, New York, January 31, 1997’
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, RKD Images, The Hague, The Netherlands. Frans Hals (I), studio.
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Status
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Under Research
