Portrait of a Young Man with a Sword

ca. between 1618 and 1620

Attributed to Nicolas Régnier Flemish, active Italy, 1591-1667

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European: 17th Century French, Level 2, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Portrait of a Young Man with a Sword

Artwork Date ca. between 1618 and 1620

Artist Attributed to Nicolas Régnier

Life Dates active Italy

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. Flemish

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

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 28 7/8 × 24 1/8 inches (73.4 × 61.3 cm) Framed: 36 1/2 × 31 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (92.7 × 80 × 6.4 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reichhold

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. 41.56

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, on horizontal stretcher bar: "3. Caravaggio"

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1941, Mr. & Mrs. Henry Reichhold (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1941-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Richardson, E.P. "Renieri, Saraceni and the Meaning of Caravaggio's Influence." Art Quarterly 5 (1942): pp. 232-241 (fig. 1). [as by Renieri.]

Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, pp. 109, no. 690.

Portraits by Flemish Masters in American Collections. In Art, Life and Science in Belgium, No. 12. New York, 1949, no. 27 (ill.).

Bodart, Didier. Les peintres des Pays-Bas méridionaux et de la principauté de Liège á Rome au XVIIe siècle. Brussels and Rome, 1970, vol. 1, p. 90 note 7.

Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 174 [as attributed to Renieri.]

Fantelli, P.L. "Su Niccolò Renieri ritrattista." Atti dell'Istituto veneto di scienze, letteri, ed arti. 1973, pp. 152-153 (fig. 2).

I Caravaggeschi Francesi. Exh. cat., Villa Medici (Academia di Francia) and Grand Palais. Rome and Paris, 1973, p. 243.

Valentin et les caravagesques français. Exh. cat., Villa Medici (Academia di Francia) and Grand Palais. Rome and Paris 1974, p. 250.

Fantelli, P.L. "Nicolò Renieri, 'Pittor fiamengo.'" Saggi e Memorie di Storia dell'Arte, no. 9 (1974): pp. 77-115, no. 26.

Pallucchini, R. La pittura veneziana del Seicento. Venice, 1981, vol. 1, p. 152; vol. 2 (fig. 432).

France In The Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings In American Collections. Exh. cat., Grand Palais et al. Paris, 1982, pp. 52, pp. 315-16, cat. 95 (ill.). [as Young Man with a Sword; Self-Portrait?]

Skliar-Piguet, A. "Régnier, Nicolas [Renieri, Niccolò]." in The Dictionary of Art, ed. J. Turner. 1996, vol. 26, p. 9.

Caravaggio e i Giustiniani. Toccar con mano una collezione del seicento. Exh. cat., Palazzo Giustiniani and at Altes Museum. Rome and Berlin, 2001, pp. 200-201.

Bissell, R.W., A. Derstine, and D. Miller. Masters of Italian Baroque Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2005, pp. 162-163, cat. no. 53.

Lemoine, A. Nicolas Régnier (alias Niccolò Renieri) ca. 1588 - 1667. Peintre, collectionneur et marchand d'art. Paris, 2007, p. 226, cat. 24. [as by Régnier.]

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attributed to Nicolas Régnier, Portrait of a Young Man with a Sword, ca. between 1618 and 1620, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reichhold, 41.56.