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image of Portrait of a Merchant
Jan Gossaert (artist)
Netherlandish, c. 1478 - 1532
Portrait of a Merchant, c. 1530
oil on panel
Overall: 63.6 x 47.5 cm (25 1/16 x 18 11/16 in.) framed: 83.8 x 68.6 x 5.7 cm (33 x 27 x 2 1/4 in.)
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
1967.4.1
From the Tour: Antwerp in the Early 1500s
Object 2 of 7

Exhibition History

1866
Exhibitions of Works by Ancient Masters, British Institution, London, 1866, no. 70.
1884
Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1884, no. 288, as Holbein.
1954
Loan Exhibition of the Lansdowne Collection, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, 1954-1955, no. 17.
1956
L'Art flamand dans les collections britanniques et la Galerie Nationale de Victoria, Groeningemuseum, Bruges, 1956, no. 33.
1963
Le siècle de Bruegel: La peinture en Belgique au XVIe siècle, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, 1963, no. 112.
1969
In Memoriam, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, unnumbered checklist.
2002
Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2003, no. 32, color repro.

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