Head of an Old Man

Related Artist: Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)


Schorr Collection, London, United Kingdom

Object details

Title

Head of an Old Man

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

63.2 x 46.3 cm

Artist

Related artist

Jacques Jordaens (1593 - 1678)

Most recent published attribution

Jordaens [always]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Schorr Collection, London, United Kingdom

Provenance

Sale, Schamp d’Aveschot, Ghent, 1 and 4 September 1840 (773);
sale, Le Roy d’Etoilles, Petit, 21 February 1861 (186);
according to the sale catalogue of 1989 from the personal collection of Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), Berlin;
sale, Christie’s, London, 31 March 1989 (109);
Schorr Collection London, on loan to Chiswick House.

Literature

Literature

Caen/Gent 2012, p. 19 note 57;
White 2014, I, p. 139, no.17; II, p. 229.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

2

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 193
Dated: AD 1411 – 1603
Felled: After AD 1613 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 148 (+13 counted rings)
Dated: AD 1458 – 1605 (+13)
Felled: After AD 1628 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Date of investigation

16 November 2017

Dendro report no.

LO017/2018

Author

Dr. MBA Joost Vander Auwera

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