After Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch master Frans Hals gets a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. Frans Hals is the latest 17th century Dutch master to feature in a major exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. A show opening on Wednesday highlights Hals' lose brush strokes that made him a forerunner of the impressionist movement. (AP Photo/Michael Corda)

AMSTERDAM (AP) — In the early 17th century, laughter was almost never captured on a painter's canvas.

Frans Hals changed that.