
Portrait of a Man
Jan Baptist Weenix · c. 1650
Provenance
Ownership history
- Ralph Bernal, London (died 1854); his sale, Christie's, London, Mar. 5, 1855, lot 829, as by S.J. 1659 [according to statement attached to the back of the support]. Sir John Ramsden, 6th Bart. (1877-1958), Bulstrode Park, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire; sold, Christie's, London, July 11, 1930, lot 36]. Brian Koetser Gallery, London by 1963 [London 1963]; sold by David Koetser, Zurich to the Art Institute, 1969.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London, Brian Koetser Gallery, Autumn 1963, cat. 25.
Literature
Published references
- Joachim Wolfgang von Moltke, "Jan de Bray," Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 11/12 (1938/1939), pp. 491-2, no. F17.
- Advertisement, Art News 66, no. 4 (1967), p. 21, ill.
- David de Witt, The Bader Collection. Dutch and Flemish Paintings, Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, 2008), pp. 315-16, fig. 194a, under no. 194.
- Anke A. Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven, Jan Baptist Weenix. The Paintings, vol. 1 (Zwolle, 2018), pp. 230-31, no. 105 (ill.)
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