Willem Drost

Portrait of a Man



Willem Drost - Portrait of a Man



Willem Drost
Portrait of a Man
1653 or 1655
86.7 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

External links

RKD 129903
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 41.116.2

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Willem Drost Self-portrait as St. John the Evangelist
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c. 1655

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Willem Drost Portrait of a lady
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