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Portrait of a Bearded Old Man
Claude Mellan · c. 1650
Provenance
Ownership history
- Camille Groult (died 1908), Paris [according to Toronto 1972]; by descent to his son, Jean Groult (died 1951), Paris; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, March 21, 1952, lot 19, as "école francaise du XVIIe siècle." Germain Seligman, New York [Collector’s mark; not in Lugt]; sold to the Art Institute, 1958.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, "French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections," 1972, cat. 89.
- Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, "Claude Mellan: gli anni romani: un incisore tra Vouet e Bernini," October 24, 1989-January 8, 1990, cat. 32.
- Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, "17th Century French Drawings from Fontainebleau to the Louvre," December 13, 1989-January 23, 1990, cat. 74; traveled to Cambridge, Mass., the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, February 24-April 18, 1990; and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, the National Gallery of Canada, from May 7-June 17, 1990.
- Milwaukee, Wis., Milwaukee Art Museum, "Old Master Drawings from Area Collections," April 18-June 29, 1997, cat. 24.
Literature
Published references
- Harold Joachim, French Drawings of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Chicago, 1977), no. 1E5.
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