National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Portrait of a Man with an Arrow
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Provenance

British private collection, until 1895.[1] (Bourgeois Frères, Cologne), in 1895.[2] Baron Albert Oppenheim [d. 1912], Cologne, from 1895.[3] (F. Kleinberger and Co., New York, 1912-1916);[4] Michael Dreicer, New York, 1916-1921; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, bequest of Michael Dreicer, 1921 (acc. no. 22.60.45); Mrs. Dreicer Whyte, widow of Michael Dreicer, by March, 1933.[5] (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1936; purchased February 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.

[1] According to a letter of 17 November 1912, from Friedländer to Kleinberger in the archives of the department of European paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, under Bouts, Portrait of a Man (acc. no. 14.40.644); information supplied by Lorne Campbell.

[2] Friedländer letter cited in preceding note.

[3] Letter cited in n. 4.

[4] Sold to Dreicer 5 January 1916, according to information in the Kleinberger archive, department of European paintings, Metropolitan Museum; information transmitted by Mary Sprinson de Jesús.

[5] Information provided by Mary Sprinson de Jesús; letter of 6 September 1979 in NGA curatorial files. Mrs. Dreicer Whyte obtained the painting from the MMA as a result of the contestation of Michael Driecer's will by his heirs.

Exhibition History

1902
Exposition des primitifs flamands et d'art ancien, Hôtel de Gouvernement Provincial, Bruges, 1902, no. 70.
1912
Exposition de la miniature, Hôtel Goffinet, Brussels, 1912, no. 2031.
1994
Hans Memling, Groeningemuseum, Bruges, Belgium, 1994, no. 11, repro.
2005
The Portraits of Memling, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Groeningemuseum, Bruges; The Frick Collection, New York, 2005, no. 13 [Madrid] and 11 [Bruges], repro.

Bibliography

1899
Kaemmerer, Ludwig. Memling. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1899: 20-21, fig. 16.
1900
Nieuwbarn, M. C. Hans Memling. Leipzig, 1900: no. 52, repro.
1900
Voll, Karl. Review of Memling by Ludwig Kaemmerer. In Kunstchronik N.F. 12 (1900/1901): 115.
1902
Hulin de Loo, Georges. Bruges. Exposition des tableaux flamands des XIVe, XVe, et XVIe siècles. Catalogue critique. Ghent, 1902: 17, no. 70.
1902
Hymans, Henri. "L'Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 28 (1902): 292, repro. opp. 294, etching by J. Vyboud (repr. as a book, Paris, 1902: 60).
1903
Friedländer, Max J. "Die Brügger Leihausstellung von 1902." Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 26 (1903): 82.
1903
Mont, Pol de. L'Evolution de la peinture néerlandaise aux XIVe, XVe et XVIe siècles et l'exposition de Bruges. Haarlem, 1903: no. 106, repro.
1903
Weale, W. H. James. "The Early Painters of the Netherlands as Illustrated by the Bruges Exhibitiion of 1902." The Burlington Magazine 1 (1903): 336.
1904
Molinier, Émile. Collection du Baron Albert Oppenheim. Tableaux et objets d'art. Paris, 1904: 10, no. 25, pl. XXII.
1906
Voll, Karl. Die altniederländische Malerei von Jan van Eyck bis Memling. Leipzig, 1906: 188-189, 225.
1907
Vollmer, Hans. "Memling." In Thieme-Becker 37 vols. 1907-1950. Leipzig, 1926: 26:376.
1910
Wurzbach, Alfred von. "Memling." In Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon. 3 vols. Vienna and Leipzig, 1910: 2:140.
1912
Fierens-Gevaert, Hippolyte. "Correspondance de Belgique. L'Exposition de la miniature à Bruxelles." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 7 (1912): 194-195.
1916
Friedländer, Max J. Von Eyck bis Bruegel. Berlin, 1916: 179.
1919
Friedländer, Max J. "About Some of Hans Memling's Pictures in the United States." Art in America 8 (1919/1920): 107-108, fig. 2.
1922
Wehle, Harry B. "The Michael Dreicer Collection." Bulletin of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 17 (1922): 100, 102, repro.
1924
Friedländer, Max. Die altniederländische Malerei. 14 vols.. Berlin and Leiden, 1924-1937. Berlin, 1934: 6:44, 131, no. 85. (English transl. 14 vols. Leiden, 1967-1976. Leiden, 1971: 6 pt.1:8-29, 56, 130, no. 85, pl. 119.)
1924
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. 7th ed. Compiled by Bryson Burroughs. New York, 1924: 221 (8th ed. 1926: 233; 9th ed. 1931: 241).
1926
Stein, Wilhelm. "Die Bildnisse von Roger van der Weyden." Jahrbuch der königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen (Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen) 47 (1926): 30-31.
1927
Fierens-Gevaert, Hippolyte, and Paul Fierens. Histoire de la peinture flamande des origines à la fin du XVe siècle. 3 vols. Paris and Brussels, 1927-1929: 3:62, 72.
1934
Huisman, Georges. Memlinc. Paris, 1934: 149.
1935
Fierens, Paul. Memling. Paris, 1935: no. 13, repro.
1937
Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Privately printed, 1937: 35.
1937
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Mellon's Gift." Magazine of Art 30, no. 2 (February 1937): 73.
1939
Bazin, Germain. Memling. Paris, 1939: 20, pl. 6.
1939
Kantorowicz, Ernst H. "The Este Portrait by Roger van der Weyden." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 3 (1939/1940): 178, fig. 32c.
1941
De Tolnay, Charles. "Flemish Paintings in the National Gallery of Art." Magazine of Art 34 (1941): 186, 200, repro. 187.
1941
Held, Julius S. "Masters of Nothern Europe in the National Gallery." ArtNews 40, no. 8 (June, 1941): 11, repro. 13.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 132.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 240, repro. 39.
1949
Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 58, repro.
1954
Buttin, Charles. "La flèche des juges du camp." Armes anciennes 1 (1954): 59, pl. 20.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 304, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 89
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture: Illustrations (Companion to the Summary Catalogue, 1965). Washington, 1968: 78, no. 42, repro.
1968
Nickel, Helmut. "Ceremonial Arrowheads from Bohemia." Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal 1 (1968): 78, fig. 31.
1968
Whinney, Margaret. Early Flemish Painting. New York and Washington, 1968: 89, pl. 55.
1969
Corti, Maria, and Giorgio T. Faggin. L'opera completa di Memling. Milan, 1969: 111, no. 111, repro.
1969
Wuyts, L. "Aantekeningen bij een vermeend portret van Jean Lefèvre door Rogier van der Weyden." Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (1969): 82, fig. 14.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 230, repro. 231.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 131, repro., no. 127.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 130, no. 121, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 266, repro.
1986
Hand, John Oliver and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1986: 188-193, repro. 189.
1994
Vos, Dirk de. Hans Memling: The Complete Works. Translated by Ted Alkins. Antwerp and Ghent, 1994: no. 29, 146-147, color fig.
2004
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 58, no. 41, color repro.
2007
Lane, Barbara G. Hans Memling: Master Painter in Fifteenth-Century Bruges. London, 2009: 80-81, 319, 67.
2007
Michiels, Alfred. Hans Memling. New York, 2007: 206-207, color fig.

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