THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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Provenance
(Probably) The sitter
(Probably) His son, Jeremias Wildens; the present picture would seem to be 'Het Conterfeytsel van den ouden Wildens van Rubbens' recorded in his posthumous inventory of 1653 (see J. Denucé, De Antwerpsche "Konstkamers", Inventarissen van Kunstverzamelingen te Antwerpen in de 16de en 17de Eeuwen, 1932, p.165, no.506)
M. Jegersdorff, Cologne, in the 18th Century
J. Rump, Copenhagen
J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, presented by the above in 1911; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 20 Jan. 1983, lot 55, as 'Attributed to Rubens and his Workshop'
(Probably) His son, Jeremias Wildens; the present picture would seem to be 'Het Conterfeytsel van den ouden Wildens van Rubbens' recorded in his posthumous inventory of 1653 (see J. Denucé, De Antwerpsche "Konstkamers", Inventarissen van Kunstverzamelingen te Antwerpen in de 16de en 17de Eeuwen, 1932, p.165, no.506)
M. Jegersdorff, Cologne, in the 18th Century
J. Rump, Copenhagen
J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, presented by the above in 1911; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 20 Jan. 1983, lot 55, as 'Attributed to Rubens and his Workshop'
Literature
M. Rooses, L'oeuvre de P. P. Rubens, histoire et description de ses tableaux et dessins, IV, 1890, p.282
M. Rooses, L'oeuvre de Rubens. Addenda et Corrigenda, Rubens-Bulletijn, V, 1910, p.322
M. Rooses, De Vlaamsche kunst in de 17e eeuw tentoongesteld in het Jubelpaleis te Brussel in 1910. De schilderijen, Onze Kunst, X, 1911, p.12
B. Burroughs, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings, 1926, p.302
J. Burckhardt, Rubens, 1938, pl.27
W. R. Valentiner, Rubens' Paintings in America, The Art Quarterly, IX, 1946, p.159, no.50, as 'Portrait of a Young Man'
J.-A. Goris and J. S. Held, Rubens in America, 1947, p.30, no.27, and pl.10, as 'Portrait of a Man'
J. S. Held, Artis Pictoriae Amator: An Antwerp Art Patron and his Collection, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, L, 1957, p.71, note 39 (reprinted in J. S. Held, Rubens and his Circle, ed. A. W. Lowenthal, D. Rosand and J. Walsh, Jr., 1982, p.62, note 42)
W. Adler, Jan Wildens. Der Landschaftsmitarbeiter des Rubens, 1980, pp.13 and 77, note 51, and pls.1-2
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... A Summary Catalogue, 1980, I, p.161, and III, illustrated p.371, as Attributed to Rubens
H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIX, Portraits II. Antwerp - Identified Sitters, 1987, pp.200-1, no.157, and figs. 234-5
M. Rooses, L'oeuvre de Rubens. Addenda et Corrigenda, Rubens-Bulletijn, V, 1910, p.322
M. Rooses, De Vlaamsche kunst in de 17e eeuw tentoongesteld in het Jubelpaleis te Brussel in 1910. De schilderijen, Onze Kunst, X, 1911, p.12
B. Burroughs, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings, 1926, p.302
J. Burckhardt, Rubens, 1938, pl.27
W. R. Valentiner, Rubens' Paintings in America, The Art Quarterly, IX, 1946, p.159, no.50, as 'Portrait of a Young Man'
J.-A. Goris and J. S. Held, Rubens in America, 1947, p.30, no.27, and pl.10, as 'Portrait of a Man'
J. S. Held, Artis Pictoriae Amator: An Antwerp Art Patron and his Collection, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, L, 1957, p.71, note 39 (reprinted in J. S. Held, Rubens and his Circle, ed. A. W. Lowenthal, D. Rosand and J. Walsh, Jr., 1982, p.62, note 42)
W. Adler, Jan Wildens. Der Landschaftsmitarbeiter des Rubens, 1980, pp.13 and 77, note 51, and pls.1-2
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... A Summary Catalogue, 1980, I, p.161, and III, illustrated p.371, as Attributed to Rubens
H. Vlieghe, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, XIX, Portraits II. Antwerp - Identified Sitters, 1987, pp.200-1, no.157, and figs. 234-5
Exhibited
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, L'art belge au XVIIe siècle, 1910, no.369