About This Artwork

Corneille de Lyon
French, 1500/1510-1575

Portrait of a Man, 1550/60

Oil on panel
9 7/16 x 7 5/16 in. (24 x 18.5 cm); painted surface 8 15/16 x 6 15/16 in. (22.7 x 17.6 cm )
Gift of Everett D. Graff, 1953.466

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of French Art, 1200–1900, 1932, cat. 64.

Paris, Palais National des Arts, Chefs d’oeuvre de l’art français, 1937, cat. 53.

Publication History

Anne Dubois de Groër, Corneille de La Haye, dit Corneille de Lyon (Paris, 1996), pp. 230–32, no. 153 (ill.).

Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 13-15, ill.

Ownership History

Paul Ganz, Basel, by 1932, until 1937 [lent by him to London 1932 and Paris 1937]; sold to E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Vienna and New York, probably in 1937 [a letter from Everett D. Graff to Louise Lutz, September 18, 1953, Art Institute Archives, refers to correspondance between Ganz and Silberman dated April 27, 1937]; sold to Everett D. Graff, Winnetka, presumably in 1939 [the letter cited above refers to a receipt from Silberman dated January 24, 1939, “covering the payment for this painting at that time”]; given to the Art Institute, 1953.