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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jul 4, 2018 | Sotheby's | London | Old Masters Evening Sale | 17 | $****** - ****** | PORTRAIT OF A VENETIAN NOBLEMAN |
paintings
59 x 48 cm (23.23 x 18.9 in)
oil on oak panel
Probably identifiable in Rubens’ possession at the time of his death in 1640 as 'Vn visage apres Tinctoret', no. 70, or as 'Vn pourtrait d’vn gentilhome de Venise', after Titian, no. 41
Rousselle, Brussels, 1897
With F. Kleinberger, Paris and New York, 1911
Leopold Koppel, Berlin (d. 1933), by 1914
His only son Albert Leopold Koppel (Dresden 1889–1965 New York), Toronto, by 1948, when shipped by him from Toronto to Rosenberg & Stiebel in New York, where it arrived on 20 February for storage
With Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, 1951, when appraised in January, and sold by them to Durand Matthiesen, Geneva, the proceeds remitted to Albert Koppel in November
With Matthiesen, London, 1954
Dr Hans Wetzlar, Amsterdam, probably acquired 1954–55, and certainly by 1959
Thence by descent.
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Exposition des portraits, 1897, no. 133;Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Künste, Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz von Mitgliedern des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins, 1914, no. 140;Laren (Gooi), Singer Museum, Kunstschatten; Twee Nederlandse collecties schilderijen uit de vijftiende tot en met de zeventiende eeuw…, 1959, no. 68;Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, P.P. Rubens. Paintings, Oil Sketches, Drawings, 29 June – 30 September 1977, no. 23, and subsequently in Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum;New York, The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Fine Arts of the Netherlands, 20–28 November 1982, reproduced in the brochure.
W.N. Sainsbury, Original unpublished Papers illustrative of the life of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, as an Artist and a Diplomatist, preserved in H.M. State Paper Office, London 1859, p. 238, perhaps no. 70;M. Rooses, L’œuvre de P.P. Rubens. Histoire et description de ses tableaux et dessins, 1886–92, vol. IV, p. 319, no. 41 or no. 70;Rubensbulletin, vol. V, 1897, p. 89;H. Hymans, 'Bruxelles. Exposition des portraits anciens', in Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, vol XX, 1897, p. 247;H. Hymans, 'Une exposition de portraits anciens à Bruxelles dans les galleries du Musée modern', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. XVIII, 1897, p. 81;E. Michel, Rubens, Paris 1900, p. 291;M. Rooses, Rubens, London 1904, vol. I, p. 100;M. Rooses, 'Œuvre de Rubens. Addenda et Corrigenda', in Rubens Bulletijn, vol. V, 1910, p. 89;Ausstellung von Werken alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz von Mitgliedern des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins, exhibition catalogue, Berlin 1914, p. 38, no. 140;H. Hymans, Œuvres…, vol. II, Brussels 1920–21, vol. III, pp. 535, 976;J. Denucé, De Antwerpse 'Konstkamers'. Inventarissen van de kunstverzamelingen te Antwerpen in de 16de en 17de eeuwen, Antwerp 1932, p. 59, perhaps no. 70;'Notable Works of Art now on the Market', supplement to The Burlington Magazine, vol. XCVI, December 1954, reproduced plate XI (when with Matthiesen, London);Kunstschatten. Twee Nederlandse collecties schilderijen uit de vijftiende tot en met de zeventiende eeuw…, exhibition catalogue, Laren 1959, no. 68, reproduced fig. 36;M.L. Myers, 'Rubens and the Woodcuts of Christoffel Jegher’, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Summer 1966, pp. 7–23;M. Jaffé, 'Rubens and Raphael’, in Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art presented to Anthony Blunt on his 60th birthday, London & New York 1967, p. 105;R.A. D’Hulst (ed.), P.P. Rubens. Paintings, Oil Sketches, Drawings, exhibition catalogue, Antwerp 1977, p. 69, no. 23, reproduced facing page;M. Jaffé, Rubens and Italy, Oxford 1977, p. 27, reproduced plate 85;D. Bodart, Rubens, Milan 1985, p. 185, no. 641;J. Duverger, Kunstinventarissen…, 1984–2004, vol. IV, p. 302, no. 41, p. 303, no. 70;J.M. Muller, Rubens: The Artist as Collector, Princeton 1989, pp. 109–10, cat. I, under no. 70, reproduced plate 26;M. Jaffé, Rubens. Catalogo completo, Milan 1990, p. 186, no. 201, reproduced;I. von zur Mühlen, 'Tintoretto–Rubens–Mantua’, in C. Syre et al., Tintoretto. The Gonzaga Cycle, exhibition catalogue, Munich 2000, pp. 179, 189, no. 8;J. Wood, 'Rubens' italienische Kopien. Ein chronologischer Abriss,’ in R. Baumstark et al., Rubens im Wettstreit mit Altern Meistern. Vorbild und Neuerfindung, exhibition catalogue, Munich 2009, p. 80, no. 29;J. Wood, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI, Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Earlier Artists. Italian Artists, I. Raphael and his School, Turnhout 2010, vol. I, p. 56, no. 108;J. Wood, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard, Part XXVI, Copies and Adaptations from Renaissance and Later Artists. Italian Artists, II. Titian and North Italian Art, London and Turnhout 2010, vol. I, pp. 346–52, no. 148, reproduced vol. II, plate 174;B. van Beneden, David Bowie's Tintoretto, Antwerp 2017, p. 111, reproduced fig. 94.
oil on oak panel
59 x 48 cm.; 23 1/4 x 18 7/8 in.
