The Laughing Cavalier Greetings Card

“The most brilliant of all Baroque Portriats” – everyone. 

Well we’re only half joking. The Cavalier is another our best-known and most-loved residents with his extravagantly embroidered outfit layered with ruffs and cuffs, tight-lipped grin and smirking eyes. The sitter of Hals portrait remains unknown and it’s current title was a combined invention by the British Press and a catalogue listing on it’s arrival to the Bethnal Green Museum (now the V&A’s Museum of Childhood) for a public exhibition in the 1870s.

This greetings card has been printed exclusively for the Wallace Collection from a painting on display in the Great Gallery on Level 1 of the museum.

• Blank inside
• Dimensions: 16cm x 11.5cm
• Printed in the UK
• Wallace Collection Exclusive
• Painting Details: The Laughing Cavalier, Frans Hals (1582/3-1666) Netherlands, 1624