HALS, Frans
(b. 1580, Antwerpen, d. 1666, Haarlem)

Portrait of a Man

1650-52
Oil on canvas, 111 x 86 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This large portrait depicts a fashionably attired but seemingly sober gentleman. Comparison with the design of other portraits by Hals indicates that this picture could have stood alone, and equally well might have had a pendant, However, none has ever been identified or proposed.