Familienporträt in einer Landschaft - drei vorübergehend vereinte Fragmente

This began life as one enormous family portrait, painted by Frans Hals around 1624 and stretching nearly 4 metres wide, the Van Campen family, parents and a crowd of children, out in a landscape. At some point, probably around 1800, someone cut it into pieces and sold them off separately. For two centuries the parts led separate lives: the main group ended up in Toledo, Ohio, a strip of children with a goat-cart in Brussels, and a single boy's head in a private collection. In 2018 all three were finally hung side by side again in one room, where the seams still showed how the great canvas had been carved apart.