Three Children with a goat-cart

During the restauration of the work Three Children with a Goat Cart by Frans Hals from the collection of the RMFAB, a remarkable theory was confirmed: the work was originally part of a bigger family portrait that Hals painted for the cloth merchant Gijsbert Van Campen. Two other parts of the canvas are found in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art (Ohio, USA) and a European private collection.
The reunited masterpiece (joined by the other three family portraits that Frans Hals painted during his lifetime at the “Dutch Spring” exhibition within the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium <01.02>19.05.2019>) show the brilliancy with which the artist broke away from traditional conventions of the genre, setting new standards for Western art.