Portrait of a Man, c. 1655

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 54.6 x 41.9 cm (21 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.)

framed: 72.1 x 60.3 x 6.4 cm (28 3/8 x 23 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.98

Artists / Makers

Dutch 17th Century (painter)

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Inscription

falsely dated, upper right: AETATIS .38 / .1655

Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest); sold 28 September 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, New York, March 1924, no. 3, as Jan Strycker by Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker.

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 Jan Strycker by Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker.

Bibliography

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 Jan Strycker by Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker.

1970: American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 168, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 118, repro.

1980: American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 309.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 142, repro.