From the Distinguished Swiss-American Collection of Idda-Marie Rossi
Netherlandish School, second quarter of the sixteenth century
Portrait of a physician, aged 43
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From the Distinguished Swiss-American Collection of Idda-Marie Rossi
Netherlandish School, second quarter of the sixteenth century
Portrait of a physician, aged 43
oil on panel
charged with coat of arms at upper center;
inscribed lower center: ÆTATIS SVE, 43°;
further inscribed on the pharmacy jar: RUBEA FEBRILIS
panel: 33 ⅛ by 13 ⅛ in.; 84.1 by 33.3 cm.
framed: 39 ⅜ by 19 ⅝ in.; 100 by 49.8 cm.
James-Alexandre de Pourtalès, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (1776–1855), Paris;
His posthumous sale, Paris, 27 March 1865, lot 163 (as Hans Holbein the Younger);
Jacques Normand;
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 7 March 1923, lot 21 (as School of Hans Holbein the Younger, "The Apothecaries");
Possibly with Jacques Seligmann, Paris (as German School, 16th century);
Eugène Pelletier, Paris, by 1930;
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 3 December 1930, lot 7 (as Attributed to Joos van Cleve, Portrait of an apothecary, its pair as subsequent lot 8);
Where acquired by A. Popoff & Cie., Paris, until 1936;
Lielchenfeld collection, New York, by 1947.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Exhibition of Old Art from the Possession of the International Trade, June–August 1936, no. 23 (as Bartholomäus Bruyn, and as one of a pair).
Bulletin de la Société d'histoire de la pharmacie, 11e année, no. 38, 1923, p. 218 (as School of Holbein);
"Un Tableau Médical de Van Schorel," in Aesculape, vol. XIII, 1923, p. 168 (as Jan van Scorel);
C. Larraz and R. Villa, Portraits du Maître de Dinteville, Cinisello Balsamo 2023, pp. 65–68, old black and white image reproduced fig. 43 (as anonymous Netherlandish school, 1527? or possibly 1530s).
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