Courting; aka: A Merry Couple (after Harmen Hals) by Henry Wolf
Courting; aka: A Merry Couple (after Harmen Hals)
Henry Wolf
Title
Courting; aka: A Merry Couple (after Harmen Hals)
Artist
Henry Wolf
1852 - 1916 (biography)Year
c. 1900
Technique
woodengraving
Image Size
6 9/16 x 4 7/8" image
Signature
pencil, lower right
Edition Size
ca 100
Annotations
Reference
exhibited at 1915 PPIE, #7501
Paper
very fine ivory wove
State
proof
Publisher
artist
Inventory ID
7111
Price
$300.00
Description
After the painting "A Merry Couple" by Harmen Hals from 1648, Henry Wolf's rendition was titled "Courting." Like his father, Dutch painter Hans Hals I, he was known for his depictions of everyday people with a focus on facial expressions, as if capturing people in a candid moment.
In 1915, the year before his death, the American wood engraver Henry Wolf won the Grand Prize for his printmaking at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The Wolf prints we have were available for sale at the PPIE and many were the actual prints exhibited and have the label from the PPIE.