Laughing Boy with Flute 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 by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote "31. A LAUGHING BOY WITH A FLUTE. M. 240. Half-length, in profile to the left. The head is three-quarters left. The long hair falls in disorder. The lips are parted, showing the teeth. On the left the flute is held upright in the right hand. The eyes look to the left and slightly upward. Lifelike colour in the face. Circular panel, n| inches
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