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Boy with a Glass and a Lute
Boy with a Glass and a Lute is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1626 and now in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London.
Painting.
The painting shows a boy with a lute who is holding a glass above his head with his right hand; with his left hand, he balances a lute which rests on a table.
Name.
In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot wrote: "82.
Hermitage version. Elements of the composition of the "Apollo Lute Player" are repeated not only in the Hermitage work (with several counterpoint variations), but also in the glass carafe in the lower part of the two paintings "A Boy bitten by a Lizard", most especially in the version in the National Gallery, London. There the central rose and white jasmine is quite close to these elements in the present work, while in the Longhi Foundation picture the rose is a white one. The lower daisy in the