Malle Babbe, after Frans Hals, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"
Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart French
After Frans Hals Dutch
Publisher P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.
Not on view
Jacquemart made this print after the painting (71.76)—attributed at the time to Frans Hals—as part of a portfolio celebrating the founding collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his review of the prints, the British critic and etching advocate, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, declared this work "one of the most powerful plates in the series, the execution being full of audacity and rude vigor." Proponents of the etching revival in the nineteenth century touted the suitability of the medium for interpreting painterly styles and the vigorous brushwork of Hals provided a good test case.
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