Young Man Wearing a Beret

Artist Jan Lievens Dutch, 1607–1674

Datecirca 1627–29

MediumOil on oak panel

Dimensions19 3/8 x 14 7/8 in. (49.2 x 37.8 cm)
Frame: 27 1/4 x 23 5/8 x 3 in. (69.2 x 60 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. Benjamin Katz

Object numberG.57.28.1

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated Netherlands, ca. 1627–1629. [Firma D. Katz, Dieren, Netherlands, before 1957]; Benjamin Katz (1890–1962), Dieren, Netherlands, before 1957; given to NCMA, 1957.
Published ReferencesNorth Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, nos. 4 and 5 (Winter 1957/Spring 1958), listed 52, illus. (b-w) 56.

Hans Schneider & Rudolf E. O. Ekkart, Jan Lievens: sein Leben und seine Werke (Amsterdam: Israël, 1973), 329.

Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, Vol. 3, edition PVA, text by B. Keil and Ovens (Landau/Pfalz: Pfälzische Verlagsanstalt GmbH, 1983), cat. no. 1257 (as Junger Mann mit Barett), illus. 1896

Anthony Janson, "Rembrandt and the Museum," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1992), 11-13, illus. (b-w) 11.

Helga Gutbrod, Lievens und Rembrandt : Studien zum Verhältnis ihrer Kunst (Frankfurt: Frankfut am Main Lang, 1996), 310, 315.

Dennis P. Weller, et al, Saints and Sinners, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and His Dutch and Flemish Followers (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), illus. (b-w) 114. (Catalogue only, not in show.)

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 26, illus. (color) 113, also mentioned xi.

Franziska Gottwald, "The Heads of Christ in the Context of the Tronie," in Rembrandt and the Face of Jesus (exhibition catalogue), Lloyd DeWitt, ed. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2011), mentioned and illus (color) 148, fig. 5.3 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

Bernhard Schnakenburg, Jan Lievens: Friend and Rival of the Young Rembrandt (Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2016), cat. no. 77, illus. (color).
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Face to Face with the Dutch Golden Age," December 20, 1995-May 26, 1996.
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