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A Portrait of a Man
Jan de BrayLinkedCulture matchlcp-2baae3a18fe6
- Date
- 1650
- Medium
- Black and red chalk on ivory laid paper
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 228931
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Jan de Bray used finely pointed red and black chalk in alternation to describe the facial features of middle-aged residents of the city of Haarlem. He also captured the distinctive features of their clothing, such as buttons, pleats, seams, and the stiffly pressed lace of their elaborate collars.
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- Credit line
- Margaret Day Blake Fund
- Provenance
- Jeronimus Tonneman (1688–1750), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, Oct. 21, 1754, Kunstboek N, lot 28, to Hendrick De Leth. Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726–1798), Amsterdam; sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 3, 1800, Kunstboek B, lot 24, to Reinier Vinkeles (1741–1816). Bernardus de Bosch (1742–1816); sold, Amsterdam, Mar. 10, 1817, Kunstboek D, lots 9–10, to Jan Hulswit (1766–1822). H. Willink; sold, Amsterdam, Dec. 6, 1819, Kunstboek C, lot 3, to Brondgeest. H. Croockewit; sold, Amsterdam, Dec. 16, 1874, lot 24, to A.G. De Visser; sold, Muller et Cie, The Hague, May 16–18, 1881, lot 50, to Geller for Baron Adalbert von Lanna (1836–1909); sold, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 6, 1910, no. 118, to Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (1863–1930), The Hauge [stamp (Lugt 561) verso, lower center in brown]. I.Q. (Johan Quirijn) van Regteren Altena (1899–1980), Amsterdam [stamp (Lugt 4618) verso, lower center, in black]; by descent; sold Christie’s, Amsterdam, Dec. 10, 2014, to Haboldt & Company, Amsterdam; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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