Frans Hals, 1623 - The Smoker - fine art print

Artwork specifications by the museum's website (© Copyright - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The loose brushwork on this octagonal panel—its original shape—captures the bustle of a tavern interior as caught in a corner of the viewer's eye. Although the painting's attribution to Hals has been questioned occasionally, the execution is entirely typical of his less ambitious genre pictures dating from the 1620s.

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The 17th century work of art The Smoker was painted by the Dutch painter Frans Hals. The artwork measures the size - Octagonal, 18 3/8 x 19 1/2 in (46,7 x 49,5 cm). Oil on wood was applied by the painter as the medium of the artwork. What is more, this artwork belongs to the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889 (public domain). Creditline of the artwork: Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889. In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in square format and has a ratio of 1 : 1, which means that the length is equal to the width. The painter Frans Hals was a European artist, whose artistic style can be classified as Baroque. The European painter lived for a total of 84 years - born in the year 1582 in Antwerp, Antwerpen province, Flanders, Belgium and deceased in the year 1666.

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