Art Institute of Chicago
Portrait of a Man
Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616–1671)LinkedCulture matchlcp-bdd7a6f034f7
- Date
- 1657–58
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 49422
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This portrait, at once elegant and direct, may be a remnant of a larger painting of the consuls, or civic administrators, of Montpellier, Sébastien Bourdon’s native city in the south of France. Bourdon returned there briefly in the midst of a career that included early years in Rome, successful activity in Paris, and a short stint at the Stockholm court of Queen Christina of Sweden from 1652 to 1653. The large, isolated swath of fabric on the left and the absence of the sitter’s left hand suggest that it was cut from Bourdon’s group portrait.
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- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Provenance
- Private collection, England [letter of 13 January 1981 from Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki of Heim Gallery; however the Heim commission book for 1970-85 at the J. Paul Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, states that the painting came from the Etablissement Rustique in Vaduz, Liechtenstein in 1975]. Heim Gallery, London, 1975; sold by Heim to the Art Institute, 1975.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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