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Portrait of Stephan Geraedts, Husband of Isabella Coymans is an oil on canvas painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals. The painting was originally part of a couple of pendant wedding portraits. Hals probably painted the present portrait, Stephanus Geraerdts', alderman in Haarlem (lefthand portrait), and the accompanying portrait of the latter's wife Isabella Coymans (righthand portrait) around 1650–1652, six or seven years after their marriage in 1644. Isabella's portrait is now in a private collection in Paris.The portraits have been separated since 1886. Though many pendant wedding portraits from the Dutch Golden Age have since been split up, this particular pair of portraits receive the most commentary about this fact in the documentation.
Isabella Coymans oil on canvas Dutch Golden Age Frans Hals