About the Artwork
Man Wearing a Plumed Beret and Gorget
mid-1630s
Workshop of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
1606-1669
Dutch
----------
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 27 1/8 × 20 3/8 inches (68.9 × 51.8 cm) Framed: 34 3/4 × 28 × 4 inches (88.3 × 71.1 × 10.2 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Matilda R. Wilson Fund
72.201
Public Domain
Markings
Please note: This section is empty
Provenance
Prince A. de Broglie (Paris, France);Charles Fairfax Murray (London, England);
June 13–14, 1914, presented at auction, (Georges Petit, London, England) "Catalogue de Tableaux Anciens...Provenant de la Collection Charles Fairfax Murray," lot 23 [bought in, for 315,000 francs];
December 14, 1917, presented at auction, (Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England), "C. Fairfax Murray, Esq. also Pictures by Old Masters, the property of the Dowager Countess of Mexborough,", lot 69 [for 7350 pounds];
December 14, 1917-March 19, 1918, purchased by (Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, England);
Charles Clarke [d. 1935].
(Howard Young Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
by 1930–1962, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred G. Wilson [1883–1962] (Meadowbrook Hall, Rochester, Michigan, USA);
1962–1970, by descent to spouse, Matilda R. Wilson [1883–1967] (Rochester, Michigan, USA);
October 22, 1970, presented at auction, (Parke-Bernet, New York, New York, USA), "Important Old Master Paintings [Estate of M.R. Wilson]," lot 9 [bought in];
1972–present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
For more information on provenance, please visit:
Provenance pageExhibition History
Please note: This section is empty
The exhibition history of a number of objects in our collection only begins after their acquisition by the museum, and may reflect an incomplete record.
We welcome your feedback for correction and/or improvement.
Suggest FeedbackPublished References
Hofstede de Groot, C. "Nieuw Ontdekte Rembrandts." Onze Kunst, part 22, vol. 11, no. 2 (July–December 1912): pp. 173-188; p. 177 [as by Rembrandt].
Collection Charles Fairfax Murray. Sales cat., Galerie Georges Petit. London, June 15, 1914, no. 23 (ill.) [as Portrait présumé du frère de l’Artiste, possibly as bought in by Édouard Rahir].
Hofstede de Groot, C. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, vol. 6. London, 1916, p. 168, no. 275e [as "A Soldier"].
Catalogue of Important Ancient and Modern Pictures the Property of C. Fairfax Murray, Esq. Also Pictures by Old Masters the Property of the Dowager Countess of Mexborough. Sales cat., Christie, Manson & Woods. London, December 14, 1917, p. 12, no. 69 [as "A Soldier"].
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Wiedergefundene Gemälde. Stuttgart and Berlin, 1921, p. xviii, no. 36, (fig. 32) [as "A warrior (portrait of the artist?)"].
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Wiedergefundene Gemälde. Berlin and Leipzig, 1923, p. xxii, no. 41, (fig. 36) [as "A warrior (portrait of the artist?)"].
Glück, Gustav. "Rembrandts Selbstbildnis aus dem Jahre 1652." Jahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien 2, no. 2615 (1928): pp. 317-328; p. 319.
"Detroit Museum Opens Rembrandt Loan Exhibition." The Art News 28, no. 30 (April 26, 1930): pp. 3, 13.
The Thirteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Paintings by Rembrandt. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1930, cat. 23 (ill.).
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Rembrandt Paintings in America. New York, 1931, no. 45 [as in the collection of Alfred G. Wilson].
Glück, Gustav. "Rembrandts Selbstbildnis aus dem Jahre 1652." In Aus drei Jahrhunderten europäischer Malerei, ed. Gustav Glück et al. Vienna, 1933, p. 296.
Bredius, Abraham. Rembrandt Gemälde. Vienna, 1935, p. 8, no. 192 (ill.). Reprint, London, 1937, p. 8, no. 192 (ill.).
Bauch, Kurt. Rembrandt Gemälde. Berlin, 1966, p. 10, no. 158 (ill.).
Arpino, Giovanni, and Paolo Lecaldano. L'Opera pittorica completa di Rembrandt. Milan, 1969, pp. 102-103, no. 157 (ill.).
Bredius, Abraham. Rembrandt, 3rd ed, H. Gerson, ed. London, 1969, pp. 158, 563, no. 192 (ill.).
Important Old Master Paintings. Sales cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries. New York, October 22, 1970, p. 16, no. 9 (ill.).
Butler, Joseph T. "The American Way with Art." Connoisseur 181, no. 728 (October 1972): pp. 132-137; pp. 135-137, (fig. 14).
"Notes on Public Art Museums." Art Journal 32, no. 1 (Autumn 1972): pp. 68-75; p. 71 (ill.).
R[oberts], K. "Some Recent Museum Acquisitions of Paintings and Water-colours." Burlington Magazine 114, no. 834 (September 1972): pp. 653-654; p. 654, (fig. 91).
Cummings, Frederick J. "Curatorial and Museum Department Reports." Bulletin of the DIA 52, no. 1 (1973): pp. 8-10; pp. 5, 8, 13 (ill.).
"[Recent acquisitions in the United States] États-Unis." La Chronique des Arts no. 1249 (February 1973): p. 125, no. 438 (ill.).
Slive, Seymour. "Rembrandt's Man Wearing a Plumed Beret and Gorget, A Recent Acquisition." Bulletin of the DIA 54, no. 1 (1975): pp. 5-13, (figs. 1-2).
Sutton, Denys. "Robert Langton Douglas, Part III: Agent for the Metropolitan Museum." Apollo 109, no. 207 (June 1979): pp. 412-427; p. 427, note 6.
Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 72, no. 42 (ill.).
Sutton, Peter C. Dutch Art in America. Grand Rapids, 1986, p. 84 [as by Rembrandt, dated mid-1630s].
Rembrandt Research Project, A Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings, vol. 3. Dordrecht, 1989, pp. 630-631, (fig. 4) [see C98 "Bust of a man with a plumed cap," as by Rembrandt school].
Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 9, 34-35 (ill.).
Keyes, George S., et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 188-189, no. 77 (ill.).
Keyes, George S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School." In The European Fine Art Fair Handbook (TEFAF Maastricht). s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 2005, pp. 15.
Wetering, Ernst van de. Rembrandt's Paintings Revisited: A Complete Survey. Dordrecht, 2015, pp. 560 (ill.) [as "Tronie of a young man with gorget and plumed baret"].
Kindly share your feedback or any additional information, as this record is still a work in progress and may need further refinement.
Suggest FeedbackCatalogue Raisoneé
Please note: This section is empty
Credit Line for Reproduction
workshop of Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Man Wearing a Plumed Beret and Gorget, mid-1630s, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Matilda R. Wilson Fund, 72.201.
More by Artist
Related Works
Feedback
We regularly update our object record as new research and findings emerge, and we welcome your feedback for correction or improvement.
Suggest Feedback
