Portrait of a Man

ca. 1530

Cornelius Anthonisz Netherlandish, c. 1505 - 1553

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European: Medieval and Renaissance, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Portrait of a Man

Artwork Date ca. 1530

Artist Cornelius Anthonisz

Life Dates c. 1505 - 1553

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Netherlandish

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on oak panel

Dimensions Unframed: 16 1/8 × 12 inches (41 × 30.5 cm) Framed: 22 7/16 × 18 1/2 × 3 inches (57 × 47 × 7.6 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 38.28

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Provenance

1905, Collection Henry Willett (Brighton, England);
April 10, 1905, auction (Christie's, London, England) lot 247 [as school of Holbein];
(R. Langton Douglas, London, England);
1934, Collection Robert Weeks DeForest (New York, New York, USA);
January 29-30, 1936, auction (American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, New York, USA) lot 3;
(Siegfried F. Aram, New York, New York, USA);
1938-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures by Old Masters of Henry Willett, Esq. Sales cat., Christie, Manson & Woods, London, April 10, 1905, p. 11, no. 59. [as “Portrait of Edward Godsalvo” by Holbein]

Collection Formed by the Late Robert W. De Forest and by Mrs. Robert W. De Forest Sold by the Order of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest. Sales cat., American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Inc., New York, January 29–30, 1936, pp. 56–57 (ill.). [as “Portrait, Said to be Edward Godsalvo” by Hans Holbein the Younger (School of)]

Ferry, Dexter M. et al. “Accessions.” Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 18, no. 5 (February 1939): 9–13, p. 9.

Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1944, pp. 41, 167, no. 515 (ill.). [as Dutch, Amsterdam school]

Valentiner, W.R. Loan Exhibition of Early Dutch Paintings 1460–1540. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1944, pp. 5, 10–11, no. 10.

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Cornelius Anthonisz, Portrait of a Man, ca. 1530, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, General Membership Fund, 38.28.