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Frans Hals Family Portraits on View in Toledo Through January 12

The Toledo Museum of Art will feature the “Frans Hals Portraits: A Family Reunion” exhibition from October 13th until January 6th

Sat, Oct 13 - Sun, Jan 6  2019

From October 13th until January 6th, the Toledo Museum of Art will display Dutch Old Master Frans Hals’s family portraits in an exhibition called “Frans Hals Portraits: A Family Reunion.”

Frans Hals | Van Campen Family

Frans Hals, “The Van Campen Family in a Landscape” (c. 1623-25) © Toledo Museum of Art

 

Family Reunion

This exhibition is the first devoted to the family portraiture of Frans Hals (1582/83–1666), one of the foremost painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Organized by the Toledo Museum of Art and the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, the exhibition was prompted by the Toledo Museum of Art’s acquisition in 2011 of Frans Hals’s Van Campen Family Portrait in a Landscape, as well as the recent conservation of Brussels’ Three Children of the Van Campen Family. These two works originally formed one composition, separated for unknown reasons likely in the late 18th century or early 19th century.

Frans Hals | Children of the Van Campen Family

Frans Hals, “Children of the van Campen Family with a Goat-Cart” (c. 1623-25) © Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

 

The exhibition reunites the sections of the Toledo/Brussels painting, where it will be shown with the three other family portraits painted by the artist, and includes loans from the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, the National Gallery in London, the Cincinnati Art Museum and other distinguished collections. The exhibition will travel to Brussels and Paris following its Toledo debut. A scholarly publication accompanies the exhibition.

 

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