National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Adriaen van Ostade
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Provenance

Buckston family, Sutton on the Hill, Derbyshire; (sale, Sotheby & Co., London, 5-6 May 1919, 2nd day, no. 285);[1] Brown, acting for (Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Arthur J. Sulley & Co., and Colnaghi & Co., London);[2] purchased 9 May 1919 by (M. Knoedler & Co., London and New York); sold 1 November 1919 to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.;[3] deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.

[1] In this auction the picture was listed as Portrait of the Artist by Nicholas Berghem [Berchem]. The auction catalogue states that the painting was "The Property of a Gentleman". Francis Russell of Christie's kindly provided the name of the family that consigned the painting (letter of 10 March 2003 to Arthur Wheelock, in NGA curatorial files).

[2] The fact that the purchase was by joint account of the three dealers is given in the Public Collections section of The Getty Provenance Index Databases. The painting was Agnew’s joint account number J-1817 and Colnaghi’s number A-720. Colnaghi also sold one third of their share to H.M. Clark. Christopher Kingzett of Agnew’s confirmed Agnew’s purchase of the painting at the 1919 sale, but does not mention the joint account with Sulley and Colnaghi (letter, 7 March 1984, to Arthur Wheelock, in NGA curatorial files).

[3] Letter, 14 February 1984, Nancy Little, Librarian at M. Knoedler & Co., to Arthur Wheelock, in NGA curatorial files. Knoedler’s recorded their purchase as from Agnew’s; the painting was Knoedler stock number 14774.

Exhibition History

1925
Paintings by Old Masters from Pittsburgh Collections, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1925, no. 24, as Nicholas Berghen [Berchem].

Bibliography

1925
An Exhibition of Paintings by Old Masters from the Pittsburgh Collections. Exh. cat. Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1925, no. 24.
1935
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "New Additions to the Work of Frans Hals." Art in America 23 (June 1935): 86-103, no. 21, fig. 2.
1936
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Frans Hals Paintings in America. Westport, Connecticut, 1936: 100, repro.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 95, as Portrait of a Man.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 240, repro. 24, as Portrait of a Man.
1949
Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 79, repro.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 337, 312, repro., as Portrait of a Man.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 65, as Portrait of a Man.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 58, repro., as Portrait of a Man.
1970
Grimm, Claus. "Ein meisterliches Künstlerporträt: Frans Hals' Ostade Bildnis." Oud Holland 85 (1970): 170-176, figs. 5 and 6.
1970
Slive 1970-1974, 1(1970):190-191, fig. 203; 2(1970): fig. 303; 3(1974):78-79, 99-100, no. 192.
1971
Grimm, Claus. "Frans Hals und seine Schule." Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 22 (1971): 146-178, fig. 24.
1972
Grimm, Claus. Frans Hals: Entwicklung, Werkanalyse, Gesamtkatolog. Berlin, 1972: 105-106, 204, no. 122, figs. 136-138, 142.
1974
Montagni, E.C. L'opera completa di Frans Hals. Milan, 1974: 105, no. 72, repro. (also 1976 French ed., Tout l'oeuvre peint de Frans Hals, Paris).
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 170, repro., as Portrait of a Man.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 268-269, no. 356, repro.
1981
Baard, H. P. Frans Hals. New York, 1981: 138.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 268, no. 350, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 196, repro.
1986
Sutton, Peter C. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Grand Rapids and Kampen, 1986: 308-309.
1988
Middelkoop, Norbert, and Anne van Grevenstein. Frans Hals: Life, Work, Restoration. Amsterdam, 1988: 72-73, repro. (also 1989 English ed., 72-73, repro.).
1990
Grimm, Claus. Frans Hals: The Complete Work. New York, 1990: 46-49, fig. 40e, 256, fig. 104b, 287, no. 123, repro.(Trans. Jürgen Riehle from Frans Hals: das Gesamtwerk, Stuttgart, 1989).
1995
Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 79-83, color repro. 81.
2007
Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr., and Michael Swicklik. "Behind the Veil: Restoration of a Dutch Marine Painting Offers a New Look at Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and History." Bulletin / National Gallery of Art, no. 37 (Fall 2007): 2, 4, fig. 2.

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