Excerpt from Frans Hals: Biographie Critique<br><br>Parmi les peintres hollandais du xviie Siecle, Frans Hals arrête l'attention par un ensemble de qualités dont il est malaisé de définir, tout d'abord, la nature. Mais si, au musée d'amsterdam, au musée de Berlin, au Mauritshuis de La Haye, au Louvre, on le compare aux autres portrai tistes les plus réputés, ses contemporains et ses compa triotës, bientôt des différences capitales apparaîtront, pourtant, avec évidence.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.