Thomas de Keyser

Portrait of a Man with a Shell



Thomas de Keyser - Portrait of a Man with a Shell



Thomas de Keyser
Portrait of a Man with a Shell
c. 1625-26
24 x 17.5 cm
Oil on wood
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
From the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus, Bequest of Rita Markus, 2005


Related works

Pendant:

Thomas de Keyser - Portrait of a Woman with a Balance
Thomas de Keyser
Portrait of a Woman with a Balance
c. 1625–26

Literature

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 98

Literature
Norbert Middelkoop (ed.), Rembrandt and Amsterdam portraiture, 1590-1670, Madrid, 2020, fig. 61


Provenance

with Sir George Donaldson, London
Edward Rathbone Bacon, New York, by 1911–died 1915
his estate, 1915–at least 1919
sale, Christie's, London, 19 November 1920, nr. 118, to Duits
with Duits, London, from 1920
with Goudstikker, Amsterdam, in 1926
E.A. Veltman, Bloemendael, The Netherlands
?Frits Lugt, The Hague
with Alfred Brod, London, by 1955–at least 1965
sale, Christie's, London, 10 December 1993, nr. 271, to Naumann
with Otto Naumann, New York, 1993–94, sold to Markus
Frits and Rita Markus, New York, 1994–his death 1996
Rita Markus, New York, 1996–died 2005

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 2005.331.5

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Thomas de Keyser Officers and Other Civic Guardsmen of the IIIrd District of Amsterdam
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1632

Thomas de Keyser Portrait of Two Woman and a Boy
Portrait of Two Woman and a Boy

Thomas de Keyser Portrait of Three Children and a Man
Portrait of Three Children and a Man
1622

Thomas de Keyser Portrait of a Woman with a Balance
Portrait of a Woman with a Balance
c. 1625–26

Thomas de Keyser Portrait of a man
Portrait of a man
1631