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Portrait of a Man
Exhibition history
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of French Art, 1200–1900, 1932, cat. 64. Paris, Palais National des Arts, Chefs d’oeuvre de l’art français, 1937, cat. 53.
Publications
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Cataglogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 84. Anne Dubois de Groër, Corneille de La Haye, dit Corneille de Lyon (Paris, 1996), pp. 230–32, no. 153 (ill.). Susan Frances Jones in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), 13-15, ill.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Corneille de Lyon (French, c. 1505-1575)
- Date
- c. 1555
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 24 × 18.5 cm (9 7/16 × 7 5/16 in.); Framed: 35.3 × 30.5 × 4.5 cm (13 7/8 × 12 × 1 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on panel
- Style
- 16th Century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Everett D. Graff
- Accession no.
- 1953.466
Provenance
Paul Ganz, Basel, by 1932, until 1937 [lent by him to London 1932 and Paris 1937]; sold to E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Vienna and New York, probably in 1937 [a letter from Everett D. Graff to Louise Lutz, September 18, 1953, Art Institute Archives, refers to correspondance between Ganz and Silberman dated April 27, 1937]; sold to Everett D. Graff, Winnetka, presumably in 1939 [the letter cited above refers to a receipt from Silberman dated January 24, 1939, “covering the payment for this painting at that time”]; given to the Art Institute, 1953.
More by Corneille de Lyon in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00001254
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