Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman

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Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman

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Date
1634
Medium
oil on canvas
Culture
Netherlands
Department
European Painting and Sculpture
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
160885

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An extremely wealthy linen and silk merchant in Haarlem, Tieleman Roosterman was 36 years old when Frans Hals painted his portrait. Unlike many Dutch painters of the period, Hals favored strong, visible brushstrokes that convey the vitality of his sitters. Roosterman strikes a confident pose, his costume sober but luxurious: his sleeves are decorated with braid and buttons, and ribbon rosettes encircle the waist of his doublet. The rich black of his suit is offset by the broad linen collar and lace-edged cuffs—fashionable details befitting a successful cloth merchant. Roosterman may have ordered this portrait--and one of his wife--to commemorate their wedding in 1631.

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Credit line
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Provenance
probably by 1866: Friedrich Jacob Gsell (b. 1811 or 1812 in Bischofweiler [Alsace], settled in Vienna circa 1850, died 1871) | 1872: ([Georg Plach] Künstlerhause, Vienna, Friedrich Jacob Gsell sale, March 14, 1872 (and successive days), lot 40 ["Ein Bravourstück des genialen Meisters"; sold for 15,200 fl. to Plach, probably on behalf of Baron Anselm von Rothschild). | 1872 - 1874: Baron Anselm Mayer von Rothschild (1803-1874), Vienna (inv. no. AR866) | 1874 - 1911: Baron Albert von Rothschild (1844-1911), Vienna | 1911 - 1938: Baron Alphonse von Rothschild (1878-1942), Vienna | from 1938: In the possession of the Nazis. Stored initially at Kremsmünster (?); intended for the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria | c. 1944 - May 1946: While in the possession of the Nazis, moved from Kremsmünster to the salt mines at Alt Aussee, where it was stored until released to the Austrian government in May 1946. | 1947 - 1999: Recovered by Alphonse von Rothschild's widow, Clarice von Rothschild (1894-1967), and "donated" by her for display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 9009) | 1999: Restituted to the Heirs of Barons Alphonse and Louis von Rothschild | 1999 -: (Christie's, London, Heirs of the Barons Alphonse and Louis von Rothschild sale, July 8, 1999, no. 219, to the Cleveland Museum of Art.) | 1999-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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