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Frans Hals (Antwerp or Malines 1580/85 - 1666 Haarlem), workshop of Alleged portrait of Francijtje Post, née Pieters, mother of the artist brothers Frans and Pieter Post, inscribed AETATIS SUAE 40 Ao 1626, oil on panel, 51 x 38.5 cm, framed, (Wo) Certificate: Erik Larsen, 15 August 2006, as "an authentic and characteristic work by the great Dutch painter Frans Hals ... in a very good state of preservation". Literature: Erik Larsen, in: Pantheon, International Annual Art Journal, 1998, pp. 103-107: "A newly established 'Portrait of a Woman' by Frans Hals", to be added to the catalogue raisonné of his paintings: "without any doubt an authentic work by Frans Hals, and henceforth deserves to be included as such in the Catalogue of his indisputable oeuvre"; Erik Larsen, in Weltkunst, Aktuelle Zeitschrift für Kunst und Antiquitäten, No. 8, August 2001, "Die Post-Familie", pp. 1258-1261. Provenance: N. J. W. Smallenburg van Stellendam Collection; The Hague; sale, Frederik Muller & Comp., Amsterdam, 6 May 1913, lot 40, listed and reproduced as "attributed to Frans Hals"; M. Harald Pietri Collection, Swedish consul in Antwerp; Frederik Muller & Comp., sale, Amsterdam, 30 November 1926, lot 64, as an autograph Frans Hals; 1959, Jules Defort Collection, Brussels; American private collection. In his article Professor Larsen points out the close relationship between Frans Hals and the Post family in Haarlem. Adopting the role of what today would be a press photographer, the painter Frans Post accompanied Prince Maurits of Nassau, who between 1637 and 1844 was the governor of the Dutch West India Company, to Brazil. It was his task to travel through Brazilian territories and capture the landscape and the people with topographic faithfulness. His pictures were meant to convey to the people in his native country the exoticness of Brazil, in order to persuade them to emigrate to and settle in the country of parrots. Comp. Erik Larsen, Frans Post, Interprète du Brasil, Amsterdam/Rio de Janeiro 1962, pp. 60-62). Because the facial features of the present sitter resemble those of Pieter Post, an architect and the brother of Frans (both brothers were friends of Frans Hals), Prof. Larsen concludes that she must be the artists' mother, Francijtje Post. Frans Hals also portrayed the two brothers.