Portrait of a Man Holding a Sword

Artists

Dimensions

22.6 × 17.5 cm (8 7/8 × 6 7/8 in.) frame: 38.3 × 33 cm (15 1/16 × 13 in.)

Provenance

[J. Caudri, Amsterdam, September 6, 1809, lot 50]; to Thomassen. Possibly sold by Ralph Thomassen [through his sale, London, February 25, 1822, lot 22, as “Portrait of himself, elaborately finished"]. Jan Kleinenbergh, sold [through his sale, Leiden, July 19, 1841, lot 125] to L’Andry for Nieuwenhuys. Baron van Varange, sold [through his sale, Paris, May 26, 1852, lot 27, as “Portrait of Admiral Tromp"]. Isaac Pereire, Paris, sold [through his sale, March 6, 1872, lot 134 as “Portrait of Admiral Tromp”]. Carlos González. de Candamo y Rivero (1871-1946), London and Paris, sold [through his sale, Galerie Charpentier, December 14, 1933, lot 37, as “presumable Admiral Tromp”]; to Léon and Yvonne Cotnareanu. Art Market, 1986. [Unknown Dealer, London], sold; to [Johnny Van Haeften, London, July 1987], sold; to Peter and Anne Brooke, Boston, MA, September 1987, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016