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Portrait of a Man with a Pink
Quentin Massys · 1500–10
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly Colonna di Sciarra collection, Rome [according to catalogue of the 1881 Beurnonville sale]. Étienne-Edmond Martin, 2nd baron de Beurnonville, Paris; sold, Pillet, Paris, May 9–16, 1881, no. 323, as Holbein, to Brame for 14,000 fr. [according to annotated sale catalogue in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris]. Ernest May, Paris; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, June 4, 1890, no. 106 (engraved), as Holbein, to Durand-Ruel for Charles L. Hutchinson on behalf of the Art Institute for 13,000 fr. [letter of Oct. 7, 1987 from France Daguet of Durand-Ruel in curatorial file; the purchase was supported retroactively by a gift from John J. Glessner; see Art Institute of Chicago 1895].
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of Flemish Primitives, 1929, no. 48.
- Antwerp, Exposition d’art flamand ancien, 1930, no. 197.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 45.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 122.
- New York, Knoedler, Fifteenth Century Portraits, 1935, no. 16.
- New York, Durlacher Brothers, Six Paintings by Quentin Massys, 1936 (no cat.).
- Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, A Concert of Masterpieces, 1939, no. 7.
Literature
Published references
- “At the Art Institute,” Chicago Tribune, Nov. 8, 1890.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Works of Old Dutch Masters and Other Pictures, November 1890, p. 9, no. 1.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects Exhibited at the Opening of the New Museum, December 8, 1893 (reprinted January 1, 1894), p. 18, no. 157.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum, March 15, 1894, p. 63, no. 157.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, Part I, Sculpture and Painting, 1895, p. 81, no. 157.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, Part I, Sculpture and Painting, 2nd ed., 1896, p. 91, no. 157.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, Part I, Sculpture and Painting, 3rd ed., 1898, p. 112, no. 157.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum, January 1904, p. 149, no. 9.
- AIC, Important Facts Regarding the Art Institute of Chicago with Reproductions of the Demidoff Masterpieces, Chicago, 1905, pp. 11, 22 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects, February 1907, p. 160, no. 9.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects, June 1910, pp. 158–59, no. 9.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum, 1913, p. 108, no. 9.
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