The Story
<p>**For both the present painting (SK-A-1247) and its pendant (SK-A-1246)**</p><p>…; collection Jan van de Poll (1721-1801), Amsterdam;{RANH, ARS, IS, inv. no. 168, no.
} his grandson Jan van de Poll (1777-1858), Amsterdam, 1802 (stored with other family portraits in his aunt’s house, Herengracht 479 in Amsterdam); his son Jan Stanislaus Robert van de Poll (1805-88), Arnhem (stored with 25 other family portraits in his sister-in-law’s house, Herengracht 450 in Amsterdam); by whom donated to the museum together with 34 other family portraits, as _<em>Portrait of Nicolaes Hasselaer</em>_ and _<em>Portrait of a Woman</em>_, November 1885{RANH, ARS, IS, inv. 164, no. 299 (30 December 1884); RANH, ARS, Kop, inv.
Executed in support: height 81.5 cm x width 68 cm, measuring height: 81.5; width: 68, the surface rewards close looking. Frans Hals builds the composition through layered glazes and a tightly controlled palette, letting cool shadows recede so that the warm, lit passages step forward. The brushwork shifts from the precise to the almost dissolved — a hallmark of mature Baroque practice.
“A silence so complete it becomes its own witness.”
