About the Artwork
Portrait of a Young Man
1654
Bartholomeus van der Helst
1613-1670
Dutch
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 36 × 29 inches (91.4 × 73.7 cm) Framed: 45 3/8 × 36 7/8 × 2 7/8 inches (115.3 × 93.7 × 7.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Howard Young
25.216
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, upper right: B. van der Helst f | 1654
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Provenance
by 1925, (Howard Young Galleries, New York, New York, USA)
1925-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Loan Exhibition from Detroit Private Collections. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1926, nos. 35, 36.
Valentiner, W.R. "A Portrait by Bartholomeus van der Helst." Bulletin of the DIA 7, 4 (1926): pp. 38-40 (ill.).
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 95 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 59, no. 95.
Treasures of Dutch Old Masters. Exh. cat., Winnipeg Art Gallery. Winnipeg, 1952, no. 16.
Keyes, George S. et al. Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 96–97, no. 37 (ill.).
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Bartholomeus van der Helst, Portrait of a Young Man, 1654, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Howard Young, 25.216.
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