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Portrait of Jean Gros (recto); Coat of Arms of Jean Gros (verso)
Rogier van der Weyden · 1460–64
Provenance
Ownership history
- Dr. Isaac Joseph de Meyer (d. 1861), Bruges, by 1859 [Weale 1859]; his son, Dr. August de Meyer, Bruges. Sold to Rodolphe Kann (d. 1905), Paris, by 1899 [according to Friedländer 1899]; his heirs; sold to Duveen, Paris and New York, 1907 [information supplied by Guy Bauman]; sold to Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, London, Feb. 1912 [Kleinberger stock card, Department of European Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]; sold to Kleinberger, Paris and New York, Mar. 1, 1912 [Kleinberger stock card cited above]; sold to Benjamin Altman, New York, July 3, 1912; bought back by Kleinberger, Nov. 16, 1912 [Kleinberger stock card]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, June 20, 1913 [bill of sale, Art Institute Archives]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1913; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Bruges, Grande Salle des Halles, Tableaux de l’ancienne école néerlandaise, 1867, no. 19.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 55.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 128.
- Brussels, Musée Communal de Bruxelles, Maison du Roi, Rogier van der Weyden—Rogier de le
- Pasture, 1979, no. 16.
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych, November 16, 2006–February 4, 2007, cat. 37; Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, March 3–May 27, 2007.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters: Research on Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute, 26 June—14 September 2008, no cat.
- Leuven, Municipal Museum, Rogier van der Weyden 1400-1464: Master of Passions, September 20- December 6, 2009.
Literature
Published references
- W. H. James Weale, Belgium, Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne, London,1859, p. 164.
- Emile Van den Bussche, “Museum Flandrense I:Le Cabinet du docteur De Meyer, à Bruges,” La Flandre: Revue des monuments d’histoire et d’antiquités (1875), pp. 189–90.
- Eduard Firmenich-Richartz, “Hugo van der Goes,” Zeitschrift für christliche Kunst 10 (1897), p. 378.
- Eduard Firmenich-Richartz, “Roger van der Weyden, der Meister von Flémalle: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der vlämischen Malerschule,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 10 (1898–99), p. 143.
- Max J. Friedländer, Ausstellung von Kunstwerken des Mittelalters und der Renaissance aus Berliner Privatbesitz veranstaltet von der Kunstgeschichtlichen Gesellschaft, 20. Mai bis 3. Juli 1898, Berlin, 1899, p. 7.
- Wilhelm von Bode, Gemäldesammlung des Herrn Rudolf Kann in Paris, Vienna, 1900, pp. xxviii–xxix, pl. 84.
- Émile Michel, “La Galerie de M. Rodolphe Kann,” Gazette des Beaux Arts, 3rd ser., 25 (1901), p. 498.
- Auguste Marguillier, “La Collection de M. Rodolphe Kann,” Les Arts, no. 13 (1903), p. 3 (ill.).
- Seymour de Ricci, “Un Groupe d’oeuvres de Roger van der Weyden,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 3rd ser., 38 (1907), pp. 185–88 (ill.).
- Charles Sedelmeyer, Catalogue of the Rodolphe Kann Collection, Paris, 1907, vol. 1, p. xx, vol. 2, p. 15, no. 110 (ill.).
- C. J. Holmes, “Recent Acquisitions by Mrs. C. P. Huntington from the Kann Collection,” Burlington Magazine 12 (1908), p. 205.
- Ferdinand Laban, “Ein neuer Roger, Begleitworte zu seiner Veröffentlichung,” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, n.s., 19 (1908), pp. 58, 60 (ill.).
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