The Laughing Boy (Jopie van Slouten) (Q18579041)
Label from: French (fr) English (en)
genre:
portrait (Q134307)
artist:
Robert Henri (Q724860)
collection:
Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
location:
Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
country of origin:
United States of America (Q30)
owned by:
Birmingham Museum of Art (Q865736)
location of final assembly:
Netherlands (Q55)
instance of:
painting (Q3305213)
catalog URL: http://www.artsbma.org/pieces/the-laughing-boy-jopie-van-slouten/
information from the Birmingham Museum of Art catalog
description: Robert Henri, a painter and influential art teacher, was one of the leading figures of the Ashcan School. This group of artists depicted scenes of everyday life in New York, gravitating to poor and working-class neighborhoods such as the Bowery and Greenwich Village. During the summers of 1907 and 1910, Henri worked in the Netherlands, where he became captivated with the work of Frans Hals (1580-1666), the Dutch painter known for using lively brushwork to create animated portraits. Hals made a number of pictures of laughing children, which Henri sought to emulate in his own paintings of Dutch youths. Henri described the subject of this canvas, Jopie van Slouten, as “a great, real human character to paint.” A second portrait of the boy entitled
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