Portrait of a Man by Corneille de Lyon
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Portrait of a Man

Corneille de Lyon · c. 1555

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Paul Ganz, Basel, by 1932, until 1937 [lent by him to London 1932 and Paris 1937]; sold to E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Vienna and New York, probably in 1937 [a letter from Everett D. Graff to Louise Lutz, September 18, 1953, Art Institute Archives, refers to correspondance between Ganz and Silberman dated April 27, 1937]; sold to Everett D. Graff, Winnetka, presumably in 1939 [the letter cited above refers to a receipt from Silberman dated January 24, 1939, “covering the payment for this painting at that time”]; given to the Art Institute, 1953.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of French Art, 1200–1900, 1932, cat. 64.
  • Paris, Palais National des Arts, Chefs d’oeuvre de l’art français, 1937, cat. 53.

Literature

Published references

  • Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Cataglogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 84.
  • Anne Dubois de Groër, Corneille de La Haye, dit Corneille de Lyon (Paris, 1996), pp. 230–32, no. 153 (ill.).
  • Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), 13-15, ill.

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