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Portrait of a Man
Sébastien Bourdon · 1657–58
Provenance
Ownership history
- Private collection, England [letter of 13 January 1981 from Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki of Heim Gallery; however the Heim commission book for 1970-85 at the J. Paul Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, states that the painting came from the Etablissement Rustique in Vaduz, Liechtenstein in 1975]. Heim Gallery, London, 1975; sold by Heim to the Art Institute, 1975.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits, 1600–1900, in The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, no. 4.
- Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, Janary 29–April 26,1982, no. 10, cat. by Pierre Rosenberg; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 26–August 22, 1982; Chicago, Art Institute, September 18–November 28, 1982.
- Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Sébastien Bourdon, 1616–1671, July 4-October 15, 2000, cat. 222; Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux-Arts, November 7, 2000-February 4, 2001 (Montpellier only).
Literature
Published references
- “La Chronique des arts: Principales Acquisitions des musées en 1975,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 89 (1977), suppl. to no. 1298, p. 49, no. 194 (ill.).
- Dominique Vasseur, “Portrait of a Man by Sébastien Bourdon,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 71, 3 (1977), pp. 2–5 (ill. and cover ill.).
- J. Patrice Marandel in Frédéric Bazille and Early Impressionism, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, p. 12 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago 100 Masterpieces, Chicago 1978, p. 62, no. 24 (ill.).
- Jean Pierre Cuzin, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: New York, French Seventeenth-Century Paintings from American Collections,” Burlington Magazine 124 (1982), pp. 529, 530.
- J. V. Hantz, “La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines,” L’Amateur d’art 680 (1982), p. 20.
- Claude Lesné, “La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines,” Le Petit Journal des grandes exposition 116 (1982), no p. (ill.).
- Ekkehard Mai, “La Peinture française du XVII siècle dans les collections américaines,” Pantheon 40 (1982), p. 153.
- Pierre Rosenberg, “A Golden Century in French Painting,” Connaissance des arts 25 (February, 1982), p. 74.
- Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1985, p. 149.
- Christopher Wright, The World’s Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day: A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to Their Locations Worldwide, 1991, vol. 1, p. 232, vol. 2, pp. 61, 501.
- M[ichel] H[ilaire] in Grand Siècle. Peintures françaises du XVIIe siècle dans les collections publiques françaises, exh. cat., Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, and Montpellier, Musée Fabre, 1993, p. 290, fig. 2, under no. 100.
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