Hylck Boner

Portrait of Hylck Boner, wife of Johannes Saeckma, 1635, Oil on canvas, 116.5 cm x 93.3 cm
Artist	Frans Hals
Year	1635 (1635)
Catalogue	Hofstede de Groot, Catalog 1910: #166
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	116.5 cm × 93.3 cm (45.9 in × 36.7 in)
Location	Frick Collection, New York City
Accession	1910.1.72

Portrait of Hylck Boner is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1635 and now in the Frick Collection. It is considered a pendant to the portrait of Hylck's husband Johannes Saeckma.

Life

Hylck Boner became engaged to Johannes 28 August 1603. He was a lawyer involved with the Hof van Friesland.^[1] Johannes died 22 December 1636.^[1]

Painting

Unlike Hals' other wedding portraits of women, Hylck is wearing a sober Mennonite dress with very short wrist collars. Her dress is however made with detailed embroidery that indicate the expense of the cut. Her millstone collar is noticeable for its extra tightly folded figure-eight loops. She wears her hair covered by a winged diadem cap that is edged with lace trim. She is not wearing any jewelry except for a wedding ring on her right index finger. Her ensemble is very similar to that of young Mennonite brides of Haarlem that Hals portrayed:

Two Mennonite brides of Haarlem of the 1630s

Hylck's portrait was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who identified it as the portrait of an unidentified sitter and wrote:

"388. PORTRAIT OF A LADY SEATED. M. 189. Three-quarter-length. She is seen almost in full face, though slightly inclined to the left, and looks at the spectator. Her left forearm rests on the arm of her chair ; her left hand holds a book which rests on her left knee. Her right hand is in front of her. She is in black, with a cap and a ruff. Grey background. Inscribed on the left at top, "AETAT SVAE 56, ANo 1635"; canvas, 35 inches by 35 1/2 inches. Etched by L. Krathe in the Sellar catalogue. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1885, No. 105 measuring 44 inches by 35 inches. Sales. J. Bernard, Amsterdam, November 24, 1834, No. 46 (160 florins, De Vries) measuring 50 inches by 36 1/2 inches. D. P. Sellar of London, Paris, June 6, 1889, No. 36 measuring 46 inches by 36 1/2 inches. In the collection of the late C. T. Yerkes, New York, 1904 catalogue, No. 35."^[2]

In 1974 Seymour Slive listed these as pendants and remarked on the difficulties of the provenance and said that the identification of these sitters is still uncertain.^[3]

Wedding Pendant

References

1 2 Portrait of Johannes Saeckma in the RKD
↑ catalog numbers 388 in Hofstede de Groot on Portrait of a Lady Seated
↑ Frans Hals, by Seymour Slive, 1974 a catalog raisonné of Hals works by Seymour Slive: Volume Three, the catalogue, National gallery of Art: Kress Foundation, Studies in the History of European Art, London - Phaidon Press, 1974 on Portrait of a Woman; catalog number 106 & 107, page 59

Frans Hals
Paintings	Portrait of a Woman Standing The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616 Shrovetide Revellers Portrait of a Woman Standing (Kassel) The Rommelpot Player Two Singing Boys with a Lute and a Music Book Catharina Both-van der Eem Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart Laughing Cavalier The Lute Player Laughing Boy with Flute Laughing Boy with a Flute Boy with a Glass and a Lute The Smoker The Fingernail Test The Gypsy Girl St. John St. Matthew St. Luke St. Mark Willem van Heythuysen Posing with a Sword Laughing Boy Cunera van Baersdorp¨ Portrait of Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa Portrait of Anna van der Aar Young Man with a Skull The Banquet of the Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1627 The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1627 Portrait of a Woman in a Chair Two Laughing Boys with a Mug of Beer Laughing Fisherboy Peeckelhaeringh The Merry Drinker Malle Babbe Smiling Fishergirl Fisher Boy with Basket The Fisher Boy Sara Wolphaerts van Diemen Cornelia Claesdr Voogt The Officers of the St Adrian Militia Company in 1633 Portrait of a Man with a Beer Jug Portrait of a Man in a Yellowish-Gray Jacket Catharina Brugmans Feyntje Steenkiste Hylck Boner Meagre Company Portrait of a Woman (Marie Larp) Pieter Tjarck Claes Duyst van Voorhout Maria Pietersdr Olycan Maritge Claesdr. Voogt The Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1639 Portrait of Dorothea Berck Regents of the Old Men's Almshouse Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse
People	Karel van Mander (teacher) Dirck Hals (brother) Harmen Hals (son) Frans Hals Junior (son) Jan Hals (son) Reynier Hals (son) Nicolaes Hals (son) Théophile Thoré-Bürger Seymour Slive Claus Grimm
Related	Catalogs raisonné 1974 1989 Frans Hals Museum

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