Rembrandt

Portrait of a Man ("The Auctioneer")



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Rembrandt
Portrait of a Man ("The Auctioneer")
1658
108.6 x 86.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 756
Bredius 294 (as Rembrandt)
Bauch 422 info
Gerson 340
Bredius/Gerson 294 info
Tümpel A94 (as circle of Rembrandt)
Corpus VI 259 info
Manuth 198 (doubtful)
Giltaij 324

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 173 (as Style of Rembrandt) info


Provenance

sale, Amsterdam, 23 May 1798, nr. 156, to Roos
marchese d'Vrea, Genoa
cavaliere Domenico Odone, Genoa and Vienna, by 1857–before 1875, sold through Miethke to Lippmann-Lissingen
Joseph Ritter von Lippmann-Lissingen, Vienna, by 1875–76
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 16 March, 1876, nr. 35, to Wilson
John Waterloo Wilson, Brussels, 1876–at least 1886
his sale, Paris, 14-16 March, 1881, nr. 91, bought in
Wilbrenninck, The Hague
with Boussod, Valadon & Cie, Paris
Maurice Kann, Paris, by 1901–d. 1906
his estate, 1906–9, sold to Duveen
with Duveen, Paris, 1909, sold to Altman
Benjamin Altman, New York, 1909–died 1913

External links

RKD 232771
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 14.40.624

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