Frans Hals Museum and Mauritshuis jointly acquire Frans Hals pair

May 27 2025

Picture: Sotheby's

Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:

News from the Netherlands that the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem and the Mauritshuis in The Hague have jointly acquired Boy, Possibly Frans Hals (II), Playing the Violin; Girl, Possibly Sara Hals, Singing by Frans Hals. The pair were sold at Sotheby's New York last week where they realised $7,980,000 over its $6m -$8m estimate.

Notice to "Internet Explorer" Users

You are seeing this notice because you are using Internet Explorer 6.0 (or older version). IE6 is now a deprecated browser which this website no longer supports. To view the Art History News website, you can easily do so by downloading one of the following, freely available browsers:

Internet Explorer 8.0 (for XP and Vista Users)
Internet Explorer 9.0 (for Windows 7 Users Only)
Mozilla Firefox (Latest Version, for Windows XP, Vista & Windows 7)
Google Chrome (Latest Version, for Windows XP, Vista & Windows 7)

Once you have upgraded your browser, you can return to this page using the new application, whereupon this notice will have been replaced by the full website and its content.