Head Study of a Man

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Private Collection, United Kingdom

Object details

Title

Head Study of a Man

Dimensions

48.5 x 37.8 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Attributed to Van Dyck [Van Hout 2020]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Private Collection, United Kingdom

Provenance

Private collection, Genoa, by 1947;
private collection, Germany;
sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 17 May 1962 (198), as Rubens;
with L. N. Malmedé, Cologne, c. 1967;
private collection, Germany;
sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 21 May 2005 (731), as follower of Rubens;
private collection, Switzerland;
sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 31 January 2009 (64), as circle of Rubens;
private collection, Switzerland;
private collection, South Germany;
sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 24 April 2018 (70), as Van Dyck.

Literature

Literature

Morassi 1947, p. 195, as Rubens;
Van Hout 2020, I, pp. 273-4, no. 123; II, fig. 408, as attributed to Van Dyck.

Consult the bibliography

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

3

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 50
Dated: undated
Felled:
Origin:

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 53
Dated: undated
Felled:
Origin:

Plank no. 3

Tree rings: 135 (6 sapwood rings)
Dated: undated
Felled:
Origin:

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

26 June 2019

Dendro report no.

LO032/2019

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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