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    Portrait of a Man
    Sébastien Bourdon. Portrait of a Man, 1657–58. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001041

    Portrait of a Man

    by Sébastien Bourdon

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Private collection, England [letter of 13 January 1981 from Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki of Heim Gallery; however the Heim commission book for 1970-85 at the J. Paul Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, states that the painting came from the Etablissement Rustique in Vaduz, Liechtenstein in 1975]. Heim Gallery, London, 1975; sold by Heim to the Art Institute, 1975.

    Exhibition history

    The Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits, 1600–1900, in The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, no. 4. Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines, Janary 29–April 26,1982, no. 10, cat. by Pierre Rosenberg; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 26–August 22, 1982; Chicago, Art Institute, September 18–November 28, 1982. Montpellier, Musée Fabre, Sébastien Bourdon, 1616–1671, July 4-October 15, 2000, cat. 222; Strasbourg, Musée des Beaux-Arts, November 7, 2000-February 4, 2001 (Montpellier only).

    Publications

    “La Chronique des arts: Principales Acquisitions des musées en 1975,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th ser., 89 (1977), suppl. to no. 1298, p. 49, no. 194 (ill.). Dominique Vasseur, “Portrait of a Man by Sébastien Bourdon,” Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 71, 3 (1977), pp. 2–5 (ill. and cover ill.). J. Patrice Marandel in Frédéric Bazille and Early Impressionism, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, 1978, p. 12 (ill.).
 The Art Institute of Chicago 100 Masterpieces, Chicago 1978, p. 62, no. 24 (ill.).
 Jean Pierre Cuzin, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: New York, French Seventeenth-Century Paintings from American Collections,” Burlington Magazine 124 (1982), pp. 529, 530.
 J. V. Hantz, “La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines,” L’Amateur d’art 680 (1982), p. 20. Claude Lesné, “La Peinture française du XVIIe siècle dans les collections américaines,” Le Petit Journal des grandes exposition 116 (1982), no p. (ill.). Ekkehard Mai, “La Peinture française du XVII siècle dans les collections américaines,” Pantheon 40 (1982), p. 153.
 Pierre Rosenberg, “A Golden Century in French Painting,” Connaissance des arts 25 (February, 1982), p. 74. Christopher Wright, The French Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1985, p. 149. Christopher Wright, The World’s Master Paintings from the Early Renaissance to the Present Day: A Comprehensive Listing of Works by 1,300 Painters and a Complete Guide to Their Locations Worldwide, 1991, vol. 1, p. 232, vol. 2, pp. 61, 501. M[ichel] H[ilaire] in Grand Siècle. Peintures françaises du XVIIe siècle dans les collections publiques françaises, exh. cat., Montréal, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, and Montpellier, Musée Fabre, 1993, p. 290, fig. 2, under no. 100. Alain Mérot, French Painting in the Seventeenth Century, trans. Caroline Beamish (New Haven and London, 1995), p. 192. Susan Wise in Susan Wise and Malcolm Warner, French and British Paitings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1996), pp. 21-24, ill. Jacques Thuillier, Sébastien Bourdon 1616-1671. Catalogue critique et chronologique de l'oeuvre complet, exh. cat., Musée Fabre, Montpellier and Musées de Strasbourg, 2000/2001, pp. 256-257, no. 222, ill.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616–1671)
    Date
    1657–58
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    104.2 × 88.1 cm (41 1/16 × 34 11/16 in.); Framed: 125.8 × 114.3 × 10.2 cm (49 1/2 × 45 × 4 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    17th Century
    Place
    France
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
    Accession no.
    1975.582

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