1 A visit to the workshop
1.1 A new visual approach
1.2 The fully autograph paintings
1.3 Collaborations with other artists
1.4 Contributions by the workshop
1.5 An understanding of craftmanship
1.6 Compositions based on the master's directions
1.7 The interplay of various 'hands'
1.8 The difficult anatomy of hands
1.9 Willem Buytewech in Hals's workshop
1.10 A connection with Judith Leyster
1.11 Representing movement
1.12 Increasing involvement of the workshop in the civic guard portraits
1.13 Prints made after the master's design
1.14 The challenging attribution of the miniature portraits
1.15 A presumably more expensive commission
1.16 Genre paintings by workshop-assistants, based on designs by Hals
1.17 Free compositions based on templates by Hals
1.18 The merry fisherchildren
1.19 The produciton of genre-like portraits in the Hals workshop
1.20 The workshop during the 1640s and 1650s
1.21 Hals's assistants during his later career
1.22 Frans I and Frans II
workshop of Frans Hals (I)
Portrait of Petrus Scriverius, 1626
panel, oil paint, 22.2 x 16.5 cm
lower left: FHF
lower right: 1626
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv.no. 29.100.8
cat.no. A4.1.4