Portrait of an Artist

CC0 Public Domain Designation

European Painting and Sculpture

1644

Follower of Frans Hals
Dutch, 1582/83-1666

Currently Off View: European Painting and Sculpture

Artist: Follower of Frans Hals
Title: Portrait of an Artist
Origin: Holland
Date: 1644
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 82.6 × 64.8 cm (32 1/2 × 25 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Hutchinson Colln. Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson
Reference Number: 1894.1023

“Notes on Current Art,” Chicago Daily Tribune, July 6, 1890, p. 32.
“Chicago an Art Center,” Chicago Daily Tribune, November 9, 1890, p. 1.
E. W. Moes, Iconographia Batava: beredeneerde lijst van geschilderde en gebeeldhouwde portretten van Noord-Nederlanders in vorige eeuwen (Amsterdam, 1897), p. 377, no. 3140.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago, 1901), p. 146, no. 13.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Objects in the Museum (Chicago, 1904), p. 151, no. 13.
Art Institute of Chicago, Important Facts Regarding the Art Institute of Chicago: with Reproductions of the Demidoff Masterpieces (Chicago, 1905), pp. 9, 12, ill.
Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects (Chicago, 1907), pp. 156, 162.
E. W. Moes, Frans Hals: sa vie et son oeuvre (Brussels, 1909), pp. 82, 102, no. 39.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century Based on the Work of John Smith, vol. 3 (London, 1910), p. 57, no. 185.
Wilhelm von Bode, Frans Hals: His Life and Work (Berlin, 1914), p. 48, no. 241, pl. 152b.
Raymond Wyer, “Permanent Collections for Small Museums,” The International Studio 56 (1915), p. xxxix, ill.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings (Chicago, 1920), p. 18, no. 13.
Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst) (Stuttgart, 1921), p. 204, ill.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings (Chicago, 1922), p. 18, no. 13.
Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, and Paintings (Chicago, 1923), p. 18, no. 13.
Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: Des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst), 2nd, rev. ed. (Berlin, 1923), pp. 216, 319, ill.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Chicago, 1925), pp. 9, 138, ill.
Alfred M. Frankfurter, “Paintings by Frans Hals in the United States,” Antiquarian 8 (1929), p. 34, ill.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, (Chicago, 1932), pp. 15, 155, ill.
Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Frans Hals Paintings in America (Westport, Connecticut, 1936), p. 12, no. 77, ill.
Charles Fabens Kelley, “Chicago: Record Years,” Art News 51 (1952), p. 59.
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 209–10.
H. van Hall, Portretten van Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars: repertorium (Amsterdam, 1963)
Frederick A. Sweet, “Great Chicago Collectors,” Apollo 84 (1966), pp. 190–91, 193, fig. 10.
C. C. Cunningham, “Note on a Portrait of a Lady by Frans Halls,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 5 (1970), p. 5.
Claus Grimm and E. C. Montagni, L’opera completa di Frans Hals (Milan, 1974), p. 104, no. 164, ill.
Seymour Slive, Frans Hals (London, 1970–[1974]), vol. 1, p. 160, vol. 2, pl. 251, vol. 3, pp. 83–84, no. 164.
John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists (New York, 1979), p. 164.
Ellis Waterhouse, “Earlier Paintings in the Earlier Years of the Art Institute: The Role of the Private Collectors,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 10 (1983), p. 83.
Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington D.C. and Grand Rapids, 1986), p. 51.
“From the Archives: Photographs of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1893–1933,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 19 (1993), p. 18, ill.
Larry J. Feinberg, “A Brief History of the Old Masters in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 32 (2006), p. 8.
Celia Hilliard, “‘The Prime Mover’: Charles L. Hutchinson and the Making of the Art Institute of Chicago,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies (2010), p. 43.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 63.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, June 1–November 1, 1934, no. 91.
The Detroit Institute of Arts, An Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by Frans Hals, January 10–February 28, 1935, no. 40.

Presumably Prince Anatole Demidoff, Villa San Donato, near Florence (died 1870); by descent to his nephew Prince Paul Demidoff (died 1885) and included in the sale of the contents of Villa San Donato, March 15, 1880, lot 1105, bought in; remained in the Demidoff collection, passing into the possession of Paul Demidoff’s widow, Helena Troubetskoi, Pratolino, near Florence; included in the group of 13 paintings from the Demidoff collection sold to trustees of the Art Institute through Durand-Ruel, Paris in 1890; purchase price reimbursed by Charles L. Hutchinson, 1894.

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