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Portrait of Frans Hals

about 1650

2015.28

On display in C207

oil paintpanelswoodoakpainting

Artwork Details

Artist
Creation Date
about 1650
Materials
oil on oak panel
Object Types
paintings, oil paintings
Dimensions

13-1/2 x 10 in. 22-5/8 x 19-1/8 in. (framed)

Accession Number
2015.28
Credit Line

The Clowes Collection

Copyright
Public Domain
Collection

European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800

Color Palette

August Christoph von Wackerbarth [1662-1734];{1} Königliche Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, Germany, until 1860.{2} Possibly in the collection of wealthy ship owner from Nantes, Fernand Crouan [1845-1905]; by descent to Mr. de Lagotellerie.{3} (E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, New York);{4} Acquired by Dr. George Henry Alexander Clowes of Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1934; Clowes Fund Collection, 1958-present (C10047); on long-term loan to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Courtesy of The Clowes Fund, since 1971 (C10047); given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2015. {1} Wackerbarth gave his art collection to the king of Saxony, Friedrich August I, of the House of Wettin, in 1710-11, and also served as an agent for the king’s art purchases as well. For more on Wackerbarth see Carl Niedner, “Der sächsische Kabinettsminister Graf August Christoph von Wackerbarth (Ϯ 1734) und die Königliche Gemäldegalerie in Dresden,” Neues Archiv für sächsische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, 31 (1910): 86-99, esp. p. 90, 94-95 {2} The IMA’s painting was listed in the 1722 inventory of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie as no. 147. (The number 147 appears in paint on the front of the painting at bottom right.) Scholars such as Valentiner have confused it with another version of the Hals portrait also owned by the Dresden Gallery; this version is listed as no. 191 in the same inventory. See SKD Archiv, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Direktion, Inv. 1722-1728, Lit. A. From 1859-1861 a series of auctions took place to reduce the holdings of the Dresden Gemäldegalerie, and the IMA painting was sold at auction on 16 April 1860 by Carl Gotthelf Bautzmann, Dresden, as lot no. 89; see the annotated catalogue Verzeichniss der aus den Vorräthen der Kgl. Gemälde-Galerie zu Dresden … zu versteigernden Oel- und Pastell-Gemälde, at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD Archiv, 01/GG Akte Nr. 6 Bd 1) which links lot no. 89 of the auction catalogue with the no. 530. The IMA painting indeed appears on an inventory list of paintings slated for auction as no. 530; this number appears on a paper tag on the back of the IMA painting. For this inventory, see SKD Archiv, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Direktion, Die im Vorrath befindlichen Bilder und deren Verwendung betreffend, Nr. 530. {3} Hofstede de Groot reported that he examined the painting in Paris, France, at the home of Mr. de Lagotellerie. De Lagotellerie inherited the business and presumably the painting collection of his father-in-law in 1905. The company liquidated in 1906, whereupon De Lagotellerie moved to Paris. Note written by Hofstede de Groot in March 1912, RKD files. {4} The painting was never, as Slive suggests, in the possession of H. Klaus of Minneapolis but was acquired directly from Silbermann Galleries by Clowes. The mistake can be attributed to an announcement made on 26 January 1935 by the Illustrated London News, declaring the new owner of the self-portrait to be Dr. H. Klaus of Minneapolis, Minnesota. A letter written to the newspaper by Charles H. Dorr of E. and A. Silbermann points out the mistake. Clowes Collection Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art (C10047). See also the same error in “Long hidden work by Hals is found”, New York Times, 9 January 1935.



Exhibition Name

Venue

Dates

Rembrandt Face to Face

Indianapolis Museum of Art

August 6, 2006 - November 26, 2006


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