Govert Flinck

Self-Portrait in Fantasy Costume



Govert Flinck - Self-Portrait in Fantasy Costume



Govert Flinck
Self-Portrait in Fantasy Costume
1639
65.8 x 54.5 cm
Oil on panel
Signed on the right, towards the bottom: G.flinck/1639
The National Gallery, London


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler II, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 666

Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, p. 141, plate 118
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 226

Literature
Erna E. Kok, Netwerkende kunstenaars in de Gouden Eeuw, Hilversum, 2016, fig. 1
Norbert Middelkoop (ed.), Ferdinand Bol and Govert Flinck, Amsterdam, 2017, fig. 181


Exhibitions

1999 Rembrandt by himself, Nr. 93

Provenance

probably identical with the bust portrait of Rembrandt by Flinck, of the same size, which was in the collection of Graf von Schönborn, in Pommersfelden by 1857
Schönborn (Pommersfelden) sale, Paris, 17 sqq. May 1867, nr. 30, bought by Milberg
E. Hardy sale, Frankfurt, 14 October 1878, nr. 49
Dame Florence Emily Fernor-Hesketh sale, London, 6 March 1925, nr. 137, bought by Permain for Ayerst H. Buttery
National Gallery, London, presented by Ayerst H. Buttery, 1925
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External links

RKD 30552
National Gallery, London Accession number NG4068

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