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The Rommelpot Player
The Rommelpot Player is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1618-1620 and now in the Kimbell Art Museum. It is considered the best of several versions of a Rommelpot player by Frans Hals.
Painting.
Fifteen versions of this painting were documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:
"The Rommelpot- Player. In the centre is a man turned 
three-quarters left. He faces the spectator and laughs heartily. He is in
, March 21, 1794 ; panel, 21 1/2 inches by 17 inches. Engraved by Hubert in the Galerie Lebrun. The engraver has erred with the hands of the figure on the right behind the player. In the picture the boy strikes his right fist into his open left hand. In the print the hands become a confused knot of folds. Here the girl looks at the player.
10. "A Merry Rommelpot-Player and two Laughing Children." This was in the sales : P. M. Kesler,