Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Marriage portrait by Frans Hals

Marriage portrait by Frans Hals

 * Reason:High resolution, quality image of 17th century painting by Frans Hals showing a double portrait of a newly wed couple from Haarlem, Holland.
 * Articles this image appears in:Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Frans Hals, Isaac Massa
 * Creator:Frans Hals


 * Support as nominator --Rubenescio (talk) 10:03, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment I have half a feeling that if we're going to feature paintings that illustrate artists or museums, we should pick examples where the paint is less cracked than in this one. I'm not aware of this being a particular problem with Hals' paints, so I'm hopeful, given that he was reasonably prolific, that better examples can be found. Papa Lima Whiskey  (talk) 11:40, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I disagree: We shouldn't be insisting that paintings be better than they are in real life. Every work of a major painter is usually considered notable, with maybe a few exceptions. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 05:36, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Weak Support - I'm cautious about Yorck project works - they can have really quite significant problems. But this one looks to be one of their best. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 05:36, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support: Well, it all looks ok to me. And the cracking isn't particularly noticeable or abnormal.  Though I am curious as to what Shoemaker's Holiday thinks is sometimes wrong with Yorck project works?  I know nothing about them, so I'm curious.   Mae din \talk 11:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 99% of the Yorck Project works I've seen on Wikipedia are either blurry, have strange colours, or other such problems. I appreciate what they tried to do, it's just they seem to have done much of it with low-end or early-generation digital cameras. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 11:44, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Support per Shoemaker's Holiday. Mostlyharmless (talk) 12:38, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

MER-C 11:53, 28 April 2009 (UTC)