Manner of Ferdinand Bol
PROPERTY OF THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND
Manner of Ferdinand Bol

Portrait of a man, half-length

Details
Manner of Ferdinand Bol
Portrait of a man, half-length
oil on panel
33¼ x 25 7/8 in. (84.4 x 65.6 cm.)
Provenance
Professor Dr. Wedewer; Lepke, Berlin, 26 January 1909, lot 107 as 'Ferd. Bol'.
Edward Drummond Libbey, Toledo, by whom gifted to the Toldeo Museum of Art.
Literature
B.M. Godwin, European Paintings, Toledo, 1939, pp. 98-99, repr.
Museum News, the Toledo Museum of Art, no. 112, June 1946, cover.
Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, p. 387, repr.
A. Blankert, Ferdinand Bol (1616-1680): Rembrandt's Pupil, Doornspijk, 1982, p. 176, under 'rejected attributions'.
Exhibited
Cleveland Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, 6 June-20 September 1916, I, p. 107 as F. Bol.
Toledo Museum of Art, Portraits and Portraiture Throughout the Ages, 3-31 October 1937, no. 16 as F. Bol.
Albion, MI, Albion College, Old Masters, 2-16 December 1959 as F. Bol.
Toledo Museum of Art, The Unseen Art of TMA: What's in the Vaults and Why?, 12 September 2004-2 January 2005 (no catalogue).

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According to Albert Blankert, another version of this composition was in a private collection, Lyon, before 1961 (loc. cit.).

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