About the Artwork
Portrait of a Man
17th century
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Flemish
Unknown
Oil on oak panel
Unframed: 15 1/4 × 11 3/8 inches (38.7 × 28.9 cm) Framed: 26 1/2 × 22 3/8 × 1 5/8 inches (67.3 × 56.8 × 4.1 cm)
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European Painting
Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
53.357
Public Domain
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Provenance
private collection (England);1926, Henry Reinhardt and Son, (New York, New York, USA);
purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Whitcomb (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1953-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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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.
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The Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1926, no. 39 [as Van Dyck].
Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, October 1927, p. 32, cat. 53 [lent by Mr. & Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb-entry by W. Heil].
Heil, W. "The Edgar B. Whitcomb Collection in Detroit," Art in America, vol. 16, no. 2 (1928): p. 50, (fig. 1) [as by Van Dyck].
Loan Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Anthony van Dyck. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, April 3-20, 1929, (unpaginated), cat. 38 [lent by Mr and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb (as by Van Dyck); cat. entry by W. R. Valentiner & L. J. Walther].
Loan Exhibition....by Rubens... and van Dyck. Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles, 1946, cat. 60 [as by Van Dyck].
Richardson, E.P. Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts to The Detroit Institute of Arts. 1954, pp. 56-57 [as by Van Dyck].
Pictures on Exhibit, vol. 17, no. 8 (May 1954): p. 40, (repr.).
Old Master Painting. Exh. cat., Albion College. Albion, MI, 1959 [as by Van Dyck].
Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century: The Collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 48-50, (repr.) [as Flemish artist].
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Flemish, Portrait of a Man, 17th century, oil on oak panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 53.357.
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