Portrait of a Man in an Armchair

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, United Kingdom

© The Courtauld (Samuel Courtauld Trust) Portrait of a Man in an Armchair

Object details

Title

Portrait of a Man in an Armchair

Technique and support

Oil on panel

Dimensions

120.9 x 80.6 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [Larsen 1988]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Inv. no.

P.1978.PG.103

Provenance

Possibly, Sir Thomas Wyse, sale, Christie’s, London, 25 May 1867 (66), ‘A Burgomaster, in a black dress, seated, holding a book in his left hand’, as by Rubens;
Lord Penryhn Sale, Sotheby’s, 3 December 1924, (77), as by Rubens;
Dr. W. C. Escher, Zurich;
bought by Count Antoine Seilern in Basle 1937;
bequeathed 1978.

Literature

Literature

Seilern 1955, p. 73, no. 44, as Van Dyck.
Princes Gate 1981, p. 15, no. 21;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 25.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Dendrochronology

Genus of wood

Oak

Number of planks

4

Plank no. 1

Tree rings: 35
Dated: AD 1560 – 1594
Felled: After AD 1603 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 2

Tree rings: 138
Dated: AD 1438 – 1596
Felled: After AD 1605 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Plank no. 3

Tree rings: 64
Dated: undated
Felled: -
Origin: -

Plank no. 4

Tree rings: 90
Dated: AD 1507 – 1596
Felled: After AD 1605 (terminus post quem)
Origin: Poland/ Baltic states

Planks of the same tree

-

Date of investigation

04 April 2017

Dendro report no.

LO011/2020

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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