Laughing Boy with Flute across the grain of the wood running diagonally. A copy is in the Boucher de Perthes Museum, Abbeville. In the collection of the late Alfred Beit, London. In the collection of Otto Beit, London." Hofstede de Groot noted several laughing boys by Hals along with this one (catalogue numbers 11 through to 39). This painting was also documented by W.R. Valentiner in 1923. Other boys painted by Hals in round tondos: Laughing Boy with Flute Laughing Boy with a Flute is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in the early 1620s. This painting was documented
The Laughing Man (band) The Laughing Man (band) The Laughing Man is a pop group from Wuppertal, Germany. Founded in 2003, the band plays pop music. Stefan Neumann aka J. Gedsudski, a singer with an audible German accent, says that The Laughing Man tries to "deconstruct the language to get new meanings out of it". The independent pop music of the Laughing Man, the name inspired by J.D. Salinger's story of the same name, is influenced by The Smiths, The Beatles, The Clash, American Music Club and many other British and U.S. bands of the 1980s and early '90s. The band is well known