Portrait of a Man by Nicolaes Maes
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Portrait of a Man

Nicolaes Maes · c. 1655

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Gustave Rothan, Paris, by 1873 [Mantz 1873]; sold Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, May 29-31, 1890, no. 71. Charles Hutchinson, Chicago (died 1924), by 1894; probably acquired by him at the Rothan sale along with its pendant, 1925.215; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1925.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 96.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Rembrandt after Three Hundred Years: An Exhibition of Rembrandt and His Followers, October 25 - December 7, 1969, traveled to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, December 22, 1969 - February 1, 1970, and the Detroit Institute of Arts, February 24 - April 5, 1970, no. 83.

Literature

Published references

  • Paul Mantz, “La galerie de M. Rothan,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 2nd series, 15 (1873), pp. 281-82, ill.
  • Emil Jacobsen, “Paris. Salle Georges Petit. Versteigerung der Collection Rothan,” Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 14 (1891), pp. 251-52, no. 71.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and other Objects of Art Exhibited at the New Museum (January, 1894), p. 20, no. 175.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum. Part I Sculpture and Painting (Chicago, 1896), p. 84, no. 144.
  • C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century based on the Work of John Smith, vol. 6 (London, 1916), p. 567, no. 389.
  • Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Nicolaes Maes (Berlin and Leipzig, 1924), p. 50, ill.
  • R. M. F., “The Charles L. Hutchinson Bequest,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 19 (1925), pp. 103-104, ill. p. 102.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1932), p. 161.
  • Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 264-65.
  • Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (1966), p. 196.
  • Benjamin A. Rifkin, “Rembrandt and His Circle, Part 3”, Art News 68, 7 (1969), p. 90.
  • [Willem] v[an] d[e] W[atering] in The Impact of a Genius. Rembrandt, his Pupils and Followers in the Seventeenth Century. Paintings from Museums and Private Collections, exhib. cat., K. & V. Waterman, Amsterdam and Groninger Museum, Groningen, 1983, p. 200, under no. 54.

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