Portrait of a Man, first quarter 18th century

Inscription

Formerly bore false signature upper right: [...] Anno 1674 / HC4 (HC4 in ligature)

Provenance

(Rose M. [Mrs. Augustus] de Forest, New York); sold 15 May 1923 to Thomas B. Clarke [1848-1931], New York;[1] his estate; sold as part of the Clarke collection 29 January 1936, through (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), to The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1947 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1924

Exhibition of the Earliest Known Portraits of Americans by Painters of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, The Union League Club, March 1924, no. 2, as Frederick Philipse by Henri Couturier.

1928

Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue, as Frederick Philipse by Henri Couturier.

Bibliography

1926

Bolton, Charles K. The Founders. Boston, 1926: 3:repro. 803, 978-980.

1927

Harris, Charles X. "Henri Couturier, An Artist of New Netherland." The New-York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin XI (July 1927): 45-52, repro. 47.

1928

Portraits by Early American Artists of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Collected by Thomas B. Clarke. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928, unnumbered, as Frederick Philipse by Henri Couturier.

1932

Sherman 1932, 10.

1970

American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 170, repro., as by European of Unknown Nationality.

1980

American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 307, as by Unknown [Formerly Considered American].

1985

European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 410, repro.

2000

Krempel, León. Studien zu den datierten Gemälden des Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693). Petersberg, 2000: 329 (copy of no. A234).

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