Boy with a Lute, ca. 1625, Oil on canvas, 28 3/8 x 23 1/4 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Frans Hals (Dutch, Antwerp 1582/83

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Boy with a Lute, ca. 1625, Oil on canvas, 28 3/8 x 23 1/4 in. ( x cm), Paintings, Frans Hals (Dutch, Antwerp 1582/83–1666 Haarlem), Inspired by Dutch Caravaggesque painters such as Gerrit van Honthorst and Hendrick ter Brugghen, Hals painted pictures of carefree musicians during the mid- to late 1620s. Here a young man pours a last drop of red wine onto his thumbnail, a signal to the innkeeper that he needs a refill, and to the viewer that (according to a Dutch rhyme of the period) 'The glass is empty

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