A young violinist,
oil on panel, 79 x 67 cm, framed

Provenance:
Arthur Sulley & Co., London, 1921;
Carl Schoen, New York and Rumson, N.J., c. 1923–15;
John Levey, New York, c. 1932–35;
Leo M. Flesch, New York and Piqua, OH, 1939–40;
Aquavella Galleries, New York, 1945–48;
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by 1950;
he subsequently donated it to the Chrysler Museum of Art in 1971;
Sotheby’s auction, New York, 22 January 2004, lot 130 (as a follower of Frans Hals);

Exhibited:
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Loan Exhibition of Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, 9 – 25 January 1925, no. 5;
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals,
10 January – 28 February 1935, no. 10;
World’s Fair, New York, Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300–1800, May – October 1939, no. 175;
San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, Art: Official Catalogue, 1940, no. 188;
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Frans Hals – Rembrandt, 18 November – 31 December 1947, no. 2;
Museum of Provincetown, Provincetown, Inaugural Exhibition, 1958, no. 28

Literature:
Probably The Connoisseur, XLVI, 1916, p. 100, ill. p. 101 (technique and dimensions not mentioned, as a work probably by Judith Leyster);
W. R. Valentiner, Frans Hals (Klassiker der Kunst), Stuttgart 1921, p. 284 illustrated (as Frans Hals c. 1627);
W. R. Valentiner, Frans Hals (Klassiker der art), Stuttgart 1923, p. 60 illustrated (as Frans Hals c. 1627);
W. R. Valentiner, Frans Hals Paintings in America, Westport, CT 1936, no. 22, illustrated (as Frans Hals c. 1627);
S. Silvie, Frans Hals, London 1974, vol. 3, p. 137, no. D24-2 (under “Doubtful and Wrongly Attributed Paintings”);
E. C. Montagni, L’Opera completa di Frans Hals, Milan 1974, p. 118, no. 311 (under “Other Works Attributed to Frans Hals ”;
F. F. Hofrichter, Judith Leyster: A Woman Painter in Holland’s Golden Age, Doornspijk 1989, p. 57, under no. 31, variant (A), ill. plate 80 (as a copy of the painting in Richmond);
Judith Leyster, A Dutch Master in Her World, exhibition catalogue, Worcester 1993, p. 368, under cat. no. 42, variant (A) (as a copy of the painting in Richmond)

When publishing the present painting in the 1920s and 1930s, Valentiner observed that it should probably be identified as a work sold at the Buys auction in Amsterdam in 1827. However, the latter painting was on canvas rather than on panel like the present one.