Willem Drost
Portrait of a Man
1653 or 165586.7 x 72.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and inscribed, lower left: Wilhelm Drost f / Amsterdam
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Given in memory of Felix M. Warburg by his wife and children, 1941
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 335
Bikker 22
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 38
Provenance
?C.G. van Valkenburg, Aerdenhout, until 1850
sale, Roos, Amsterdam, 17 December 1850, nr. 30, with pendant, as by J. Drost, to Roos
Albert Levy, London, until 1884
posthumous sale, Christie's, London, 3 May 1884, nr. 24, to Lesser
with Lesser, London, from 1884
James MacAndrew, Belmont, Mill Hill, until 1903
his estate sale, Christie's, London, 14 February 1903, nr. 128, to Lesser
with Lesser, London, from 1903
with Ehrich Galleries, New York, in 1913
Felix M. Warburg, New York, by 1929–died 1937
his estate, 1937–41
Other works by Willem Drost
Self-portrait as St. John the Evangelist
c. 1655
c. 1655
Annunciation
Noli me tangere
Portrait of a lady
1653
1653
Mercury and Argus