When the painting changed hands for forty-five hundred pounds, the buyer sued after discovering a signature other than Frans Hals right below the violinist’s shoe. Pink-cheeked, bemused, the woman raises a glass while her male companion sings and plays the violin.
The 1630 painting, known at various times in English as The Happy Couple or Carousing Couple, was typical Hals and Dutch Golden Age territory-a genre scene of a couple making merry in a tavern.
In 1892, a painting that had been attributed to Frans Hals for more than a century became the subject of a dispute between two English art dealers.
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