Écorché (Muscleman)

Écorché (Muscleman)

BK-2023-1

Beeld in brons van een anatomisch model - gevilde man - in een elegante loophouding, enigszins achterover hellend en de linkerarm omhooggehouden, terwijl de rechter op heuphoogte wordt gehouden. In zijn rechterhand houdt hij een restje van zijn afgestroopte huid.

Willem Danielsz. van Tetrode, Florence (possibly)

c. 1562 - c. 1630

bronze

• height 43.4 cm
• height 7 cm x width 29.5 cm x depth 15.5 cm

Purchased with the support of de VriendenLoterij and H.B. van der Ven, The Hague

purchase 2023-02-16

Public domain

…; collection Hendricus Hermanus Stephanus Philipsen (1907-1974) and his wife Anna Philipsen-Zmilczak (1911-1979), Amsterdam, date unknown;{The couple married on 28 April 1945 and lived at 12-1 Gerard Douplein, Amsterdam. With thanks to Marc Noom (written communication 15 July 2024).} by whom bequeathed to Johanna Maria Noom-Schermer (1935-2018), Amsterdam and Castricum, May 1979; {She was married to Wilhelmus Noom (1930-2018) in 1956. The couple lived for many years in Amsterdam before moving to Castricum. With thanks to Marc Noom, Amsterdam (written communication 15 July 2024).} on loan to her son Marc Noom, Amsterdam-Slotervaart;{With thanks to Margaret Schwartz (Sotheby’s, New York), who brought me in touch with the owner Marc Noom (written communication 1 March 2024) and to Emile van Binnebeke (written communication 1 February 2023). The latter recalled that the owner, Marc Noom, had recognized the bronze as a valuable piece when seeing a poster of the 2003 Tetrode exhibition in the Rijksmuseum, on which the écorché from the Hearn Family Trust appeared (oral communication 3 February 2023).} his sale New York (Sotheby’s), 22 January 2004, no. 160, to Peter Guggenheim (1927-2012) and John V. Abbott Jr (1925-2020) for the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York; their sale, New York (Christie’s), 27 January 2015, no. 71 (bought in);{After-sale through Katherine Zock, London.} sold after-sale, $1,600,000, to Peter Pritchard (1956-2020), New York;{Born in London, Pritchard read Philosophy, Politics & Economics at Queen’s College, University of Oxford. In 1986 he established in New York what became Pritchard Industries, one of the largest regional providers of building services in the United States. He was an established art collector – from Old Masters and European decorative arts to Renaissance bronze and later contemporary art.} his sale, New York (Christie’s), 27 January 2023, no. 210, $1,375,000, to the museum, with the support of the VriendenLoterij and H.B. van der Ven, The Hague, 2023

Cat. Londen, National Gallery, Rubens, a master in the making (David Jaffé, ed.), Londen 2005, p. 102, no. 34; M. Schwartz (ed.), European sculpture from the Abbott Guggenheim Collection, New York 2008, pp. 140-141, no. 72.

To refer to this object, please use the following persistent URL:

https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200842346