FRANS HALS | PORTRAIT OF A MAN, HALF-LENGTH IN BLACK, WITH A BROAD-BRIMMED BLACK HAT AND A WHITE RUFF, HOLDING HIS GLOVES, WITHIN A PAINTED OVAL

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Philippus van der Schley, 21 June 1797, lot 90 (to Aiman for 20 florins, with pendant)

Acquired by James Carnegie in 1850 from Forest in London (according to an inscription formerly on the reverse, noted by Hofstede de Groot)

Cassel, Akademis (according to Slive)

Josef Lippmann von Lissingen, Vienna and Prague

His sale, Paris, Féral, 16 March 1876, lot 21 (with pendant)

With Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, before 1898

Maurice Kann, Paris, by 1898

Acquired by Duveen, London, in August 1909, with two other works by Frans Hals and other paintings and works of art, for £500,000

With F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York, by 1911 (cat. no. 28)

With Scott & Fowles, New York, by 1922

Sold by Fowles' Estate, New York, American Art Association, 17 January 1922, lot 16

With Lionel Straus, New York

By whose estate sold, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 11 March 1953, lot 9

There acquired by Nicholas M. Acquavella Galleries, New York (bears their label on the reverse, with stock no. 4865)

From whom acquired by Mr and Mrs John J. Hyland, New York

Thence by descent to the present owners

W. von Bode, Studien zur Geschichte der holländischen Malerei, Braunschweig 1883, no. 38 (as Frans Hals)

Illustrated Catalogue of 300 Paintings by Old Masters... being some of the principal pictures which have at various times formed part of the Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris 1898, p. 62, no. 49, reproduced in etching (as Frans Hals, in the collection of Maurice Kann)

The Burlington Magazine, vol. XVI, November 1909, p. 109 (as Frans Hals, portraying Joseph Coymans) 

E.W. Moes, Frans Hals, sa vie et son œuvre, Brussels 1909, p. 105, no. 95 (as Frans Hals)

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné…, vol. III, London 1910, p. 87, no. 304 (as Frans Hals)

W. von Bode and J. Binder, Frans Hals: sein Leben und seine Werke, Berlin 1914, no. 155, reproduced (as Frans Hals)

W.R. Valentiner, Frans Hals: des Meisters Gemälde (Klassiker der Kunst), Berlin 1923, pp. 150, 316, reproduced p. no. 150 (as Frans Hals)

W.R. Valentiner, ‘Frans Hals Paintings in America’, in Art in America, vol. XXIII, 1935, no. 55, reproduced (as Frans Hals)

S. Slive, Frans Hals, London 1974, vol. 3, p. 147, no. D. 53, reproduced fig. 174, and pp. 71–72, under no. 136 (as follower of Frans Hals)

E.C. Montagni, L'opera completa di Frans Hals, Turin 1974, p. 99, no. 104, reproduced fig. 104a (listed among the works by Frans Hals, but citing Slive's opinion)

C. Grimm, Frans Hals, (catalogue raisonné in preparation), no. A1-72, reproduced (as Frans Hals)