"Narren" (Sketch copy after the oil painting by Judith Leyster in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam)
Signed E. J-n efter Frans Hals, Amst. Executed 1876. Gouache 40 x 30 cm.
Not examined out of frame. Yellowed.
Mrs Signe Uggla, née Marcus.
Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, "Ernst Josephson Minnesutställning", 1951, cat. no. 96.
Erik Blomberg, Ernst Josephsons konst - Historie-, porträtt- och genremålaren, 1956, mentioned p. 72, illustrated full-page p. 73
As Erik Blomberg writes, the work is "a copy of Judith Leyster after an original by Frans Hals, but the watercolour has not suffered for it: in the sparkling rhythm of movement, in the lavish play of shimmering highlights and dark shadows, it surpasses its prototype."
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