Keywords: Frans Hals - Portrait of a man dressed in black with a white collar and cuffs and holding a silver-topped cane - 1643.jpg artwork Q17990378 en <br> Holland signed FH and dated on the cane 1643 Paintings Oil on panel 31 7 by 27 2 cm 9741 accession number Creator Frans Hals 1643 technical study has shown the painting actually dates from 1825-1875 Mihály de Munkásy 1844-1900 Paris; after 1872 Galerie Sedelmeyer Paris; by 1898 cat no 56 Rudolf Kann Paris; by 1907 by Duveen Bros New York; by 1912 H Lehman died 1918 New York; by descent to Harriet Lehman and Betha Rosenheim New York; to Elsie Rose Weil and Dr Henry Lehman Weil; to Dr George L Weil Washington D C ; Seymour Slive Frans Hals 1970-1974 Vol III p 177 cat no 151 as by Frans Hals ; according to Claus Grimm Frans Hals Das Gesamtwerk 1989 p 285 as workshop of Frans Hals ; in 1999 sold as imitation Hals http //www artnet com/artists/frans-hals-the-elder/portrait-of-a-man-dressed-in-black-with-a-white-WfdZM_WsfdWHvjULhxHO-A2 unknown PD-Art-100 Works after Frans Hals |