Laughing Fisherboy Laughing Fisherboy Laughing Fisherboy is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1628 and now in Westphalia. This painting was documented by Ernst Wilhelm Moes in 1909 and Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote "A LAUGHING FISHER BOY. M. 253 - A fair boy, turned to the right. He holds his hands before his breast. He wears a blue cap, a blue doublet, and over it a grey jacket with short sleeves. Behind his left arm is seen the basket which he carries on his back. At the back is a view of the
A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier is a mid 17th century painting by Dutch artist Gerard ter Borch the Younger. Done in oil on wood, the work depicts a young woman playing a theorbo while her lover looks on. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ter Borch's painting portrays a scene in which a young woman plays a theorbo-lute (a stringed instrument) while her suitor sits nearby. The man is a cavalier, a 17th century soldier, and he is seen to be sitting atop