Courting; aka: A Merry Couple (after Harmen Hals)

Henry Wolf

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.