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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.95
People
Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder, German (1493 - 1555)
Previously Attributed to Joos van Cleve, Netherlandish (Cleves, Germany c. 1485/1490 - 1540-1541 Antwerp, Belgium)
Title
Portrait of a Man, traditionally said to be Roger, Count Blitterswyk-Geldern
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1528-29
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Germany, Cologne
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230522

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
panel: 46.4 x 33.7 cm (18 1/4 x 13 1/4 in.)
image: 44.2 x 32 cm (17 3/8 x 12 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Wildenstein & Co., New York], sold; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, 1930, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.95
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Camille Tulpinck, Les chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art flamand à l'Exposition de la Toison d'or, exh. cat., Association pour la publication des Monuments de l'Art Flamand (Bruges, 1902), No. 76
  • Ernst Weisz, "Jan Gossart gen. Mabuse; sein Leben und seine Werke. Ein monographischer Versuch und Beitrag zur Geschichte der vlaemischen Malerei in der ersten Haelfte des XVI. Jahrhunderts" (1912), Universität Halle-Wittenberg, p. 106, no. 77
  • Ludwig Baldass, Joos van Cleve: der Meister des Todes Mariä, Krystall-Verlag (Vienna, 1925), no. 101
  • [Reproduction Only], (April 25, 1930)., cover
  • Jakob Rosenberg, "Early Flemish Painting", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1943), vol. X, pp. 47-49, repr. in b/w as fig. 1, p. 47
  • Jakob Rosenberg, "The Winthrop Collection: Flemish Primitives", Art News (January 1-14, 1944), vol. XLII, no 16, repr.
  • Friedrich Winkler, "Rogier van der Weyden's Early Portraits", The Art Quarterly (Summer 1950), XIII, 3, pp. 211-220, p. 218, fig. 7
  • Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting, Its Origins and Character, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1953), vol. I, p. 354
  • Friedrich Winkler, "Zur Kenntnis und Wurdigung des Jan Mostaert", Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft (Berlin, 1959), Band XIII, Heft 3/4, pp. 177-214, no. 15, p. 199
  • Hildegard Westhoff-Krummacher, Barthel Bruyn der Ältere als Bildnismaler, Deutscher Kunstverlag (Berlin, 1965), pp. 167-169, cat. no. 99, p. 167
  • Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), no. 75, p. 96
  • Max J. Friedlander, Early Netherlandish Paintings: Joos van Cleve, Jan Provost and Joachim Patenier, Editions de la Connaissance (Berlin, 1972), pp. 34, 66-67
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), no. 108, p. 101

Verification Level

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