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THE FUNDAMENTS, LORE ABOUT "FAMILY PORTRAIT"

• Year -- 1635

• Medium -- Oil on canvas

• Size -- 44 x 35 3/8 in. (111.8 x 89.9 cm)

• Whereabouts -- Cincinnati Art Museum

 

HISTORY OF "FAMILY PORTRAIT "

Biography, saga of Frans Hals you will find here:  Frans Hals .

The painting was painted when when Frans Hals was around 55 and is one of his mature works.

 

STYLE OF "FAMILY PORTRAIT"

"Family Portrait" shows the characteristic vitality found in Frans Hals' other paintings, a feature that struck people of the period.

Frans Hals led the way for the later impressionist painters, by bein the first painter (as noted appreciatively by Rembrandt van Rijn) to allow the brush's strokes to be seen, rather than to smoothen them out.

The figures in the painting are lively and possess distinct personalities, as seen in their different facial expressions. In the Baroque style, Hals portrays the figures realistically, in their every day life, but still warmly.