An Old Man in a Fur Cap

1. Baron Pierre Joseph de Caters (died 1861), Antwerp, before 1861; his estate sale, Terbruggen, Antwerp, April 15, 1861, lot no. 2, as “Un vieux savant à barbe grise…” by Rembrandt. Probably Louis Lampe, Brussels, by 1906 when sold by him to Stillwell according to the 1927 Stillwell sale catalogue [this catalogue also asserts that the picture was in the collection of Prince Vladimir Potemkin]; John E. Stillwell, New York, probably from 1906; sold, Anderson Galleries, New York, December 1, 1927, lot no. 210, to Seidlitz and Van Baarn, New York, for $8,100 [buyer according to Art News, 1927, p. 120]. Chester D. Tripp (died 1974), Chicago, possibly as early as 1927 but at least by 1930 [registrar’s records of a loan to the Art Institute on June 17, 1930, R of O 4521, and Bredius 1931]; by descent to his widow, Jane B. Tripp (died 1988); bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1988.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, cat. 72.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, cat. 103.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings by Rembrandt and His Circle, December 19, 1935–January 19, 1936, cat. 25.
• Worcester, Mass., Worcester Art Museum, Rembrandt and His Circle: A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, February 4–March 1, 1936, cat. 23.
• Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Rembrandt After Three Hundred Years: An Exhibition of Rembrandt and His Followers, October 25–December 7, 1969; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, December 22, 1969–February 1, 1970; Detroit Institute of Arts, February 24–April 5, 1970, cat. 91.

• J. O. Kronig, “Carel van der Pluijm: A Little Known Follower of Rembrandt,” Burlington Magazine 26 (1915), p. 177, no. 4.
• A[braham] Bredius, “Wiedergefundene ‘Rembrandts,’” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 56 (1921), p. 147.
• A[braham] Bredius, “Ein letztes Wort an Dr. Valentiner,” Kunstchronik und Kunstmarkt 57 (1922), pp. 393-94.
• “Pictures Bring Best Prices in Stillwell Sale,” Art News 26, 10 (December 10, 1927), pp. 1, 12, no. 210 (ill.).
• A[braham] Bredius, “Karel van der Pluym, neef en leerling van Rembrandt,” Oud-Holland 48 (1931), pp. 246-47, 255-56, 264, figs. 4 and 6.
• A. Bredius, “Pluym, Karel van der” in Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. 27 (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1933), p. 164.
• Werner Sumowski, “Nachträge zum Rembrandtjahr 1956,” Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 7 (1957-58), p. 229.
• Rondom Rembrandt. De verzameling Daan Cevat, exh. cat. (Leiden: Stedelijk Museum ‘De Lakenhal’, 1968), p. 18, under no. 26.
• J[acques] F[oucart] in Le siècle de Rembrandt: tableaux hollandais des collections publiques françaises, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée du Petit Palais, 1970), p. 196, under cat. 189.
• Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, vol. 4 (Landau/Pfalz: Edition PVA, 1983), pp. 2366, 2380, no. 1598, ill.
• Henry Adams, “If Not Rembrandt, Then His Cousin?,” Art Bulletin 46 (1984), pp. 434-5, 438, figs. 10-11, 31.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1988-89 (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1988) p. 22, 55, 99, fig. 51.

Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain

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The Quick and the Dead

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Portrait of Jean Gros (recto); Coat of Arms of Jean Gros (verso)

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The Crossing of the Granicus from The Story of Alexander the Great

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Court House Studies, Interior Perspective Study

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Virgin and Child

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Lady Playing with a Dog

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The Quick and the Dead

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