Portrait of a Man

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c. 1650

Jan Baptist Weenix (Dutch, 1621-1660/69)

This fine portrait, a rare example on copper, demonstrates Jan Baptist Weenix’s subtle handling of his subject’s distinctive facial features. This work was likely commissioned at the same time as another similarly sized portrait of an older man, also on copper, now in a collection in Kingston, Ontario. While most pendant portraits of the period depicted men and women, paired portraits of men were produced as treasured tokens of friendship or kinship.

Status: On View, Gallery 213
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jan Baptist Weenix
Title: Portrait of a Man
Place: Holland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1640–1660
Medium: Oil on copper
Dimensions: 36.5 × 30.2 cm (14 3/8 × 11 7/8 in.); Framed: 61 × 54.9 × 3.8 cm (24 × 21 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Sophia P. Morton Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1969.111
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Joachim Wolfgang von Moltke, “Jan de Bray,” Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft 11/12 (1938/1939), pp. 491-2, no. F17.
Advertisement, Art News 66, no. 4 (1967), p. 21, ill.
David de Witt, The Bader Collection. Dutch and Flemish Paintings, Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario, 2008), pp. 315-16, fig. 194a, under no. 194.
Anke A. Van Wagenberg-Ter Hoeven, Jan Baptist Weenix. The Paintings, vol. 1 (Zwolle, 2018), pp. 230-31, no. 105 (ill.)

London, Brian Koetser Gallery, Autumn 1963, cat. 25.

Ralph Bernal, London (died 1854); his sale, Christie’s, London, Mar. 5, 1855, lot 829, as by S.J. 1659 [according to statement attached to the back of the support]. Sir John Ramsden, 6th Bart. (1877-1958), Bulstrode Park, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire; sold, Christie’s, London, July 11, 1930, lot 36]. Brian Koetser Gallery, London by 1963 [London 1963]; sold by David Koetser, Zurich to the Art Institute, 1969.

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