Portrait of a Man

mid 17th century

French 17th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Andrew W. Mellon Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 58.4 x 47 cm (23 x 18 1/2 in.)
    framed: 71.8 x 59.7 x 3.5 cm (28 1/4 x 23 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.17.99

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest); sold 2 August 1922 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

Exhibition History

1923

  • Exhibition of Portraits by Early American Portrait Painters, The Union League Club, New York, 1923, no. 1, as Adrian Van Der Donck 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 cat., as Adrian Van Der Donck by Jacobus Gerritsen Strycker.

2009

  • Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson, Museum of the City of New York, 2009, no catalogue.

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 Adrian Van Der Donck 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: 136, 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: 24, 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.

Wikidata ID

Q20177050

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