Homage to Frans Hals

Keating, Sean (1899-1977)

Item type:

painting

Height:

76.0 cm  (29 15/16 in.)

Width:

87.0 cm  (34 1/4 in.)

Technique / Medium:

oil on canvas

Description

Sean Nolan, City Sheriff of Dublin and noted traditional fiddler, is shown in evening dress holding his violin in a parody of Frans Hals's portrait of a man playing a lute. The portrait of the man with lute hangs on the wall behind Nolan.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Fiddle [3142]
Lute [3394]

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Boydell, Barra. Music and paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland (Dublin: The National Gallery of Ireland, 1985) 89-90. ISBN 0903162229. RILM 1985-00222.

RIdIM record id

3175