In the ninth episode of 'Frans Hals Paintings—The Podcast’, I discuss a painting titled 'Family Group in a Landscape', which is in the collection of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. It was purchased by Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, in 1935, and has been widely exhibited throughout the twentieth century. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot and Seymour Slive consider the work to be by Hals; Grimm considers it a workshop product. Slive numbered it 177, in his 1974 Hals catalogue raisonné. In the painting, five figures are positioned against a backdrop of a pastoral landscape; a sort of dune landscape in the distance whereas in the foreground is the edge of a forest, against which they are set.
To learn more about the work, visit the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum website.
Watch Titus Kaphar's TED talk about the painting.
To learn more about Kaphar's 2017 painting Shifting the Gaze, visit the website of the Brooklyn Museum.
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