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Hals's dashing young man gazes out with a faint, knowing smile beneath a magnificently embroidered doublet. The bravura brushwork and lively immediacy make him seem caught mid-moment, not posed. Despite the nickname, he is neither laughing nor a cavalier.
The Laughing Cavalier
- Date1624
- MovementDutch Golden Age
- WhereWallace Collection, London
- RegionBritain