Portrait of a Man, late 17th century

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 72.4 x 58.4 cm (28 1/2 x 23 in.)

framed: 92.4 x 77.2 x 7 cm (36 3/8 x 30 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Accession Number

1947.17.34

Artists / Makers

French 17th Century (painter)

Image Use

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Inscription

Formerly bore false signature center right: Oloff Stevense / [...] cortlandt / HC4

Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] De Forest); sold 20 April 1925 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] sold by his heirs through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York) 29 January 1936 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.

Exhibition History

1925: A Loan Exhibition of the Earliest Known Portraits of Americans Painted in This Country by Painters of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, The Century Association, New York, 1925, no. 10, as Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt 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 cat., as Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt by Henri Couturier.

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 Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt by Henri Couturier.

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: 407, repro.

2009: Conisbee, Philip, et al. French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2009: 480, repro.