Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man

SK-A-3352

Portret van een jonge man. Staand, ten halven lijve, de armen over elkaar voor de borst. Op het hoofd een zwarte hoed met brede rand.

signature and date, bottom right (‘ver’ ligated): ‘J verSpronck·an° 1646.’

painter: Johannes Verspronck (signed by artist)

1646

oil on canvas

• support: height 85.7 cm x width 66 cm
• outer size: depth 7.5 cm (support incl. SK-L-3386)

Gift of Mr and Mrs Kessler-Hülsmann, Kapelle op den Bosch

gift 1940-03

Public domain

…; collection Dominicus Antonius Josephus Kessler (1855-1939) and Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann (1868-1947), Kapelle op den Bosch, near Mechelen, by 1929;{_Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900_, exh. cat. London (Royal Academy of Arts) 1929, p. 149, no. 361.} donated by Mrs A.C.M.H. Kessler-Hülsmann to the museum, with 83 other objects, 1940; on loan to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1981-85

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