Portrait of a Man, first quarter 18th century

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 72.7 x 60.3 cm (28 5/8 x 23 3/4 in.)

framed: 90.2 x 80 x 7.9 cm (35 1/2 x 31 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.33

Artists / Makers

Unknown 18th Century (painter)

Image Use

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Inscription

Formerly bore false signature upper right: [...] Anno 1674 / HC4 (HC4 in ligature)

Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 15 May 1923 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.

[1] According to 1928 Clarke exhibition catalogue annotated with information from files of M. Knoedler & Co., NY (copy in NGA curatorial records and in NGA library).

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Knoedler & Company, M.
Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
de Forest, Rose M.

Exhibition History

1924: Exhibition of the Earliest Known Portraits of Americans by Painters of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, The Union League Club, March 1924, no. 2, as Frederick Philipse by Henri Couturier.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue, as Frederick Philipse by Henri Couturier.

Bibliography

1926: Bolton, Charles K. The Founders. Boston, 1926: 3:repro. 803, 978-980.

1927: Harris, Charles X. "Henri Couturier, An Artist of New Netherland." The New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin XI (July 1927): 45-52, repro. 47.

1928: Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered, as Frederick Philipse by Henri Couturier.

1932: Sherman 1932, 10.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 170, repro., as by European of Unknown Nationality.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 307, as by Unknown [Formerly Considered American].

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 410, repro.

2000: Krempel, León. Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693). Petersberg, 2000: 329 (copy of no. A234).