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| Man with a Steel Gorget |
Artist:Style of Rembrandt (Dutch, second or third quarter 17th century)
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:37 1/8 x 30 5/8 in. (94.3 x 77.8 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
Rembrandt's authorship was doubted as early as the 1920s. In subject and style the painting is typical of the master's immediate circle in the 1640s; attributions to Govert Flinck and to Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, both of whom studied under Rembrandt in the 1630s, have been proposed in recent years. The dashing figure's gesture may have been adopted from that of the captain in The Night Watch of 1642.
Provenance
Rt. Hon Admiral Lord Radstock, London (by 1822–d. 1825; his sale, Phillips, London, April 19, 1823, no. 66, as "Portrait of the Constable de Bourbon —from a sketch in the Montmorency Palace," by Rembrandt, for £346.10, bought in; his estate sale, Christie's, London, May 13, 1826, no. 23, as "Portrait of the Connétable de Bourbon," by Rembrandt, for £215.5 to Ailesbury); Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 1st Marquess of Ailesbury (1826–d. 1856); his son, George William Frederick Brudenell-Bruce, 2nd Marquess of Ailesbury (1856–d. 1878); his brother, Ernest Augustus Charles Brudenell-Bruce, 3rd Marquess of Ailesbury (1878–81; sale, Christie's, London, June 18, 1881, no. 122, for £850.10 to Davis); E. Secrétan, Paris (by 1883–at least 1885); [Sedelmeyer, Paris]; Adolph Thiem, San Remo and Berlin (by 1894–at least 1900; bought for Fr 23,000?); [Gimpel & Wildenstein, Paris and New York, until 1905; sold for $120,000 to Altman]; Benjamin Altman, New York (1905–d. 1913)
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