Portrait of a Man

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

Object details

Title

Portrait of a Man

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

105.4 x 74.0 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [De Poorter 2004]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

Inv. no.

708

Provenance

Count de Fraula; his sale, Brussels, 21 July 1738 (363), as Van Dyck;
Douairière Philippe Charles de Schietere, née Marie-Alexandrine de Fraula, her sale, Bruges, 9 May 1781 (58);
Theodoor Van Saceghem, Ghent; his sale, Le Roy, Brussels, 2-3 June 1851 (49), as Rubens, bought by Count Robert de Cornélissen;
his sale, Le Roy, Brussels, 11-13 May 1857 (68), as Rubens;
Gilkinet, Paris, his sale, Paris, 1863 (36), not sold;
Bought by the Antwerp Museum ‘from the Comtesse de Cornelissen’, 1878.

Literature

Literature

Hoet 1752, vol. 1, p. 550, no. 363, as Van Dyck;
Smith 1830, no. 889, as Rubens;
Rooses 1886-92, vol. 4, no. 1082, as Rubens (head and hands) and an assistant (costume and background);
Rosenberg 1905, p. 275, as Rubens;
Bode 1905, p. 201, as Van Dyck;
Antwerp Museum 1911, p. 302, no. 708, as Rubens;
Oldenbourg 1921, p. 453, n. 275, as Van Dyck;
Cornette 1939, p. 73, as Rubens;
Koninklijk Museum 1959, p. 77, no. 708;
Koninklijk Museum 1988, p. 118, no. 708;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 585, as Van Dyck;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 116, no. I.124 (N. De Poorter), as Van Dyck;
Davies 2021a, p. 53, p. 62, n. 24.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Uncradled

Guild marks

None visible

Panel maker's mark

None visible

Wax seals

Red wax seal top left

Labels

Old museum label

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

3

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 156
Dated: AD 1442 – 1597
Felled: After AD 1607 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 62
Dated: undated
Felled: -
Origin: -

Plank no. 3

Tree rings: 219
Dated: AD 1388 – 1606
Felled: After AD 1616 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

06 February 2020

Dendro report no.

AN015/2020

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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