The Fisher Boy

The Fisher Boy is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in the early 1630s, now in the Royal [Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp].

Painting

This painting was documented by Cornelis Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote "49. DE STRANDLOOPER VAN HAARLEM. B. 37; M. 254. Half-length; life size. A fisher-boy, seen in full face, laughs at the spectator. His arms are folded on his breast. He wears a little cap; his hair is in disorder. He wears a jacket with broad sleeves, and carries a basket on his back. At the back is a landscape; to the right is the sea. Signed on the left with the intertwined letters " F. H."; canvas, 30 inches by 25 1/2 inches. Sale. Alphonse Oudry, Paris, April 16 and 20, 1869. In the possession of the Paris dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 46. In the Antwerp Museum, 1905 catalogue, No. 188. "
Hofstede de Groot noted several fisherboys by Hals along with this one. This painting was also documented by W.R. Valentiner in 1923.
Other fisher folk by Hals: