Portrait of a Man by Anthonis Mor
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Portrait of a Man

Anthonis Mor · c. 1565

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Karl von der Heydt, Berlin, by 1898 and probably until 1919 [lent by him to the Berlin 1898 and Düsseldorf 1904; photograph annotated by Max J. Friedländer, R.K.D., The Hague, suggests that von der Heydt sold the picture in 1919]. Duveen, 1920.3 Kleinberger, Paris and New York, by 1927 [Friedländer 1936]; sold to the Art Institute, 1931.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Berlin, Kunstgeschichtlicher Gesellschaft, Kunstwerken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance aus Berliner Privatbesitz, 1898.
  • Düsseldorf, Kunsthistorische Ausstellung, 1904, no. 208.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 53.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 127.
  • Kansas City, Mo., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Seventh Anniversary Exhibition of German, Flemish, and Dutch Painting, 1940–41, no. 43.

Literature

Published references

  • Max J. Friedländer, in Ausstellung von Kunstwerken des Mittelalters und Renaissance aus Berliner Privatbesitz, ed. Wilhelm Bode, Berlin, 1899, p. 26.
  • Henri Hymans, Antonio Moro: Son Oeuvre et son temps, Brussels, 1910, p. 164.
  • Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report, 1930, p. 18 (ill.).
  • D[aniel] C[atton] Rich, “A Portrait by Antonio Moro,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 26 (1932), pp. 14–15 (cover ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, 1932, pp. 14 (ill.), 164.
  • “A Moro Noble Comes to Abide in Chicago,” Art Digest 6, 12 (1932), p. 10 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections, 1935, p. 23.
  • Max J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, vol. 13, Leiden, 1936, p. 174, no. 389, pl. 73; rev. English ed., Early Netherlandish Painting, Brussels and Leiden, 1975, p. 104, no. 389, pl. 189.
  • Simone Bergmans, “Le Triptyque de Viglius d’Aytta de François Pourbus,” Revue belge 9 (1939), p. 219.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, pp. 338–39.
  • Paul Philippot, “Le Portrait à Anvers dans la seconde moitié du XVI siècle,” Bulletin des Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique 14 (1965),
  • Simone Bergmans, “Deux Oeuvres retrouvées de François Pourbus l’Ancien,” Revue belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art 36 (1967), p. 11.

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