About the Artwork
Portrait of the Italian Poet, Giambattista Marino
ca. 1621
Frans Pourbus the Younger
1569 - 1622
Netherlandish
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 31 7/8 × 25 7/8 inches (81 × 65.7 cm) Framed: 41 7/8 × 35 5/8 × 3 1/4 inches (106.4 × 90.5 × 8.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of James E. Scripps
89.52
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Collection Earl of Hardwicke (Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, England)
June 30, 1888, auction (Christie's London, England) lot 4 [as Eckhout]
1888, G. Smith [bought for £15-15-00]. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1889-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Detroit Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Scripps Collection. Detroit, 1889, no. 38.
"The Scripps Old Masters," The Collector 2, no. 13 (May 1, 1891): pp. 149-152, p. 151 [as by Mathieu Le Nain, “Portrait of Tycho Brahe”].
Scripps, James E. Handbook of the Paintings Ancient and Modern, Belonging to the Detroit Museum of Art. Detroit, 1895, pp. 21-22, no. 34 [as by Mathieu Le Nain, “Portrait of Tycho Brahe”].
Detroit Museum of Art, Handbook of Paintings by the Old Masters. Detroit, 1910, pp. 30-31, no. 34 [as Mathiew Le Nain and representing Tycho Brahe]
Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Contemporary Arts and Crafts. Detroit, 1920, p.63, no. 61. [as a portrait of Tycho Brahe]
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 141, no. 784.
Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 9, 32-33 (ill.).
Ducos, B. "Court Culture in France Among the First Bourbons: Portrait of Giambattista Marino by Frans Pourbus the Younger." Bulletin of the DIA 83, 1-4 (2009): pp. 12-21 (ill.).
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Frans Pourbus the Younger, Portrait of the Italian Poet, Giambattista Marino, ca. 1621, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of James E. Scripps, 89.52.
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