Laughing Boy with a Flute Laughing Boy with a Flute Laughing boy with a flute is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1626 and now in the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin. The painting shows a boy with a flute with his head at an angle facing the viewer. In his 1910 catalog of Frans Hals works Hofstede de Groot wrote: "32. A LAUGHING BOY WITH A FLUTE. B. 118 ; M. 230. Half-length ; life size, almost in full face. The line of the shoulders rises to the left. The head is also almost in full face, but slightly
Laughing Cavalier modified showing the Laughing Cavalier enjoying the beer. In the "Scarlet Pimpernel" adventure series by Emma Orczy, "The Laughing Cavalier" is a prequel recounting the story of the supposed subject of the painting, who is an ancestor of her main hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Sir Percy Blakeney. The "eyes following you round the room" trope has long been a stand-by in British comedy, used by Pete and Dud in "The Art Gallery", among many others, sometimes in the form of a portrait with cut-away eyes that can be used as a peephole. Laughing Cavalier The Laughing Cavalier (1624) is a