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''Two singing boys with a lute and a music book'' is a painting by the
Dutch Golden Age painter Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence. The new Dutch Republi ...
Frans Hals Frans Hals the Elder (, ; ; – 26 August 1666) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He lived and worked in Haarlem, a city in which the local authority of the day frowned on religious painting in places of worship but citizens liked to decorate thei ...
, painted ''c.'' 1625 and now in the
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This painting was documented by
Hofstede de Groot Hofstede de Groot is a Dutch surname. Notable people with this surname include: * Petrus Hofstede de Groot (1802–1886), Dutch theologian * Cornelis Hofstede de Groot Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (9 November 1863 – 14 April 1930), was a Dutch ...
in 1910, who wrote: "TWO BOYS SINGING. B. 98; M. 224 - The boy on the right is seen in a three-quarter view facing left. He is in dark clothes with a white collar and a plumed cap. He holds in his left hand a lute resting on the table, while he beats time with his right hand. He looks down to the left at an open music-book on the table. Behind him to the left is the head of another boy, who looks at the music and sings with him. Signed on the left at foot with the monogram; canvas, 26 inches by 20 1/2 inches."
Hofstede de Groot
on Two Boys singing; catalog number 135
Hals has "an accomplice" peering over his shoulder, and besides the other two paintings already mentioned, this theme of a main subject with a secondary witness was common to many of his paintings of the 1620s: File:The Smoker MET DP146499.jpg, '' The Smoker'', with an accomplice on the left and another in the background on the right File:Frans Hals 072.jpg, '' Two laughing boys with mug of beer'', with an accomplice on the left File:1623 Hals Junger Mann und Frau in einem Gasthaus anagoria.JPG, '' Yonker Ramp and his sweetheart'', with an accomplice on the right File:Frans Hals - St Matthew - Museum of Western European and Oriental Art, Odessa.jpg, '' The evangelist Matthew and the angel'', with an accomplice on the left


See also

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List of paintings by Frans Hals The following is an incomplete list of paintings by Frans Hals that are generally accepted as autograph by the Frans Hals Museum and other sources. The list is more or less in order of creation, starting from around 1610 when Frans Hals began pain ...


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{{Authority control 1625 paintings Paintings of children Musical instruments in art Paintings by Frans Hals Paintings in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Kassel) Books in art