Portrait of a Man in an Oval Frame

Related Artist: Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)


Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

© Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles / photo : J. Geleyns / Ro scan Portrait of a Man in an Oval Frame

Object details

Title

Portrait of a Man in an Oval Frame

Technique and support

enlarged at four sides from 63 x 43.5 cm

Dimensions

73.0 x 59.0 cm

Artist

Related artist

Anthony Van Dyck (1599 - 1641)

Most recent published attribution

Van Dyck [Davies 2021a]

Collection and provenance

Collection

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium

Inv. no.

2746

Provenance

Charles Warner Lewis; his sale, London, 3 June 1871 (15), as a self-portrait by Rubens;
bought by Rutley;
J. Louis Melville, 1878;
bought (as by Rubens) from Léon Gauchez, art dealer in Paris, 1878

Literature

Literature

London 1878, no. 110, as Rubens;
Rooses 1886-92, vol. 4, pp. 290-1, as Van Dyck;
Bode 1888-1909, p. 24;
Cust 1900, p. 15;
Wauters 1900, no. 659, as Rubens;
Wauters 1906, p. 70, no. 659, as Van Dyck;
Bode 1906, p. 266;
Schaeffer 1909, p. 136-right;
Rosenbaum 1928a, p. 25;
Glück 1931, p. 92-left;
Amsterdam/Rotterdam 1946, no. 23;
Koninklijke Musea 1984, p. 98, no. 2476;
Larsen 1988, II, no. 16;
Barnes et al. 2004, p. 130, no. I.150 (N. De Poorter);
Madrid 2012-3, pp. 31, 32, fig. 2, 35, 322, 323;
White 2021, p. 45, fig. 38;
Davies 2021a, p. 53, p. 62, n. 24;
Goddeeris 2022, pp. 114, 116, 119, nn. 18-20.

Consult the bibliography

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradled

Cradled

Planks of the same tree

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Remarks

Remark

Dendrochronology was not possible as the panel is set in a cradle

Author

Drs. Justin Davies

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