After more than a century of being owned by private entrepreneurs, two drawings by French king Frans Hals that might have depicted his own children are now living in the Netherlands. The Frans Hals Museum and the Mauritshuis Museum, with funding from the French government and a group of bases, purchased” Boy Playing the Violin” and” Girl Singing” on Monday at bid for$ 7.8 million. The works, which were damaged around 1628, are regarded as particularly intriguing because, according to the galleries, Hals may have used his own kids as designs. They are regarded by the French government as a significant component of the nation’s cultural history. French Culture Minister Eppo Bruins stated on Tuesday in a statement that “it’s amazing that these drawings by Frans Hals, which were owned by a private collection overseas, are now home again.” A major exhibition of Hals ‘ works was held at Amsterdam’s Rijksmueum last year, which is renowned for exhibiting his subjects in lively and expressive ways. In the little town of Haarlem, he spent almost all of his career, far from Amsterdam. The Frans Hals Museum, which is located in Haarlem, has the largest selection of the artist’s artwork in the world, and did jointly own the artwork with the Mauritshuis in The Hague. The museums may change how they display the works, but they will always keep them up. The Frans Hals Museum did start hosting the drawings in mid-July, and Mauritshuis will follow in the slide. The Netherlands do not have a joint guardianship arrangement for painting. Rembrandt van Rijn, a second 17th-century French king, bought two of his paintings in 2015, and the two paintings were exchanged every five times. The life-size portraits of brides Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit were first displayed at the Rijksmuseum and moved to Paris ‘ Louvre in 2014.
