Lot 570
  • 570

Flemish School 17th Century

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Description

  • Flemish School
  • Portrait of a General
  • oil on canvas

Provenance

Max Öberlander, Vienna;
Petropolis, Berlin;
With Central Picture Galleries, New York (as van Dyck), by whom sold to
Marc and Lillian Rojtman in 1960

Exhibited

St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, Winter Exhibition, 1968 (as Anthony van Dyck)

Literature

G. Gluck, Klassiker der Kunst, Van Dyck des Meisters Gemälde,  Stuttgart and Berlin 1931,  p. 549, illustrated p. 278 (notes the strong influence of Titian);
Pharos, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1969, vol. VI, no. 4 (as Van Dyck);
E. Larsen, The Paintings of Van Dyck, Freren 1988, p. 241, no. 596 (as Van Dyck)

Catalogue Note

Larsen considered the present work to be painted by Van Dyck towards the end of his second Antwerp period, circa 1626 - 1632 (see Literature below). Larsen also noted the strong influence of Titian in this portrait.