Portrait of a Man
Artist
Thomas de Keyser
Dutch, 1596/1597–1667
Datecirca 1626
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions28 1/4 x 21 11/16 in. (71.8 x 55.1 cm)
Frame: 41 3/4 x 35 3/4 in. (106 x 90.8 cm)
Frame: 41 3/4 x 35 3/4 in. (106 x 90.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineAnonymous Gift
Object numberG.63.18.1
On View
On view[1] Does not appear in pre-World War II records of Julius Böhler. Reference could be to Drey Gallery or Bernheimer.
[2] Between 1905 and 1920 the Berlin lawyer Dr. Walter von Pannwitz assembled an extensive collection of paintings and applied art, advised by H. Bode and Max Friedländer. Following his death, his wife, Catalina von Pannwitz, a citizen of Argentina, moved to the Netherlands. The collection, which was housed in her stately home “De Hartekamp” in Heemstede, was described by Friedländer and Falcke in 1925.
[3] In 1940, with the mediation of Franz Gutmann, Catolina von Pannwitz sold five paintings to Göring for what was described as an exceptionally high price. Göring guaranteed her exit visa to Switzerland, where she stayed during the war.
[4] The majority of the Pannwitz collection was stored at the Rijksmuseum during World War II and sold following the war through Rosenberg and Stiebel, who were originally from Frankfurt. She denied any claim to the five paintings sold to Göring. See www.Herkomstgezocht.nl as well as their various publications, where the WWII history of the collection is discussed in an appendix. There have been no claims for Pannwitz property.
Published ReferencesM. J. Friedlander, Die Kunstsammlung von Pannwitz (1926), no. 35, illus. pl. 26.
Collectors' Opportunity (exhibition catalogue) (Winston-Salem: The Gallery of the Public Library of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, 1963), discussed and illus. (b-w) 42.
"W-S Exhibition Termed 'Success'," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 6, no. 9 (June-July 1963), briefly discussed and illus. (b-w), unnumbered pages.
Emporium 138, no. 828 (December 1963), 279, illus. 278.
"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 & 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), mentioned 3, listed 59, illus. (b-w) 47.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 99.
Ann Jensen Adams, The Paintings of Thomas de Keyser (1596/7–1667): A Study of Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam. Ph.D. diss, Harvard University, 1985, no. 10 as Portrait of a Man, half-length.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 92.
Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for Portrait of a Gentleman, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 103, illus. (color).
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 23, illus. (color) 99.
Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for Portrait of a Gentleman, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 212, illus. (color) 213.
Exhibition HistoryWinston-Salem, NC, Gallery of the Public Library of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County, “‘Collector’s’ Opportunity,” April 22–May 3, 1963, cat. p. 42, illus.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt,” October 25, 1986–February 15, 1987, illus. fig. 7.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Face to Face with the Dutch Golden Age,” December 20, 1995–May 26, 1996.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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