Jacob Adriaensz. Backer
Man in a red Polish cloak, wearing a laurel wreath
c. 1637-3864 x 54 cm
Oil on panel
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 38
Peter van den Brink, Jaap van der Veen, Jacob Backer (1608/9-1651), Zwolle; Amsterdam; Aken, 2008, nr. A51
Collection catalogues
Christopher White, Ashmolean Museum Oxford, catalogue of the collection of paintings, Oxford; New York, 1999, pp. 8-10
Provenance
The Revd A.B. Evans, who may have bought it in Belgium in 1844
John Evans by 1878
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, bequest of Sir Arthur Evans, 1941 (as by Ferdinand Bol)
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Other works by Jacob Adriaensz. Backer
Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert
1638
1638
Portrait of François de Vroude
Granida and Dafilo
c. 1640
c. 1640
Self-portrait as shepherd
Portrait of a Woman
1641
1641