Bartholomeus van der Helst - Portrait of a Man



Bartholomeus van der Helst
Portrait of a Man
1647
66.7 x 54.9 cm
Oil on wood
Signed, dated, and inscribed, lower right: Æta. 62 / B. vanderhelst / 1647
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, 1871


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
van Gent 37

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 76


Provenance

D. Vis Blokhuyzen, Rotterdam, until 1870
his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1/2 April 1870, nr. 25, to Gauchez
with Léon Gauchez, Brussels, 1870
with Léon Gauchez, Paris, with Alexis Febvre, Paris, 1870, sold to Blodgett
William T. Blodgett, Paris and New York, 1870–71, sold half share to Johnston
William T. Blodgett, New York, and John Taylor Johnston, New York, 1871, sold to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 71.73

Other works by Bartholomeus van der Helst


Bartholomeus van der Helst Militiamen of the Company of Captain Roelof Bicker and Lieutenant Jan Michielsz. Blaeuw
Militiamen of the Company of Captain Roelof Bicker and Lieutenant Jan Michielsz. Blaeuw
c. 1640-43

Bartholomeus van der Helst Portrait of Paulus Potter
Portrait of Paulus Potter
1654

Bartholomeus van der Helst The headmen of the Arquebus Civic Guard House
The headmen of the Arquebus Civic Guard House
1655

Bartholomeus van der Helst The Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam
The Nieuwmarkt in Amsterdam
1666

Bartholomeus van der Helst Portrait of Gerard Andriesz. Bicker
Portrait of Gerard Andriesz. Bicker
c. 1642