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Pair of portraits by Dutch master Frans Hals return to the Netherlands
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This image provided by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts shows Frans Hals, Girl Singing, c. 1628. - photo by Frans Hals Museum and Mauritshuis, courtesy of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts via AP
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A pair of paintings by Dutch Golden Age master Frans Hals that possibly depict his own children are returning to the Netherlands after more than a century overseas in the hands of private owners. “Boy Playing the Violin” and “Girl Singing,” were bought Monday at auction for $7.8 million by the Frans Hals Museum and the Mauritshuis museum, with financial support from the Dutch government and a group of foundations. Painted around 1628, the works are seen as especially interesting because, according to the museums, Hals may have used his own children as models.