About the Artwork
Young Gentleman (Earl of Downe?)
ca. 1640
Anton van Dyck
1599-1641
Flemish
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 44 1/2 × 36 inches (113 × 91.4 cm) Framed: 57 × 48 × 5 1/4 inches (144.8 × 121.9 × 13.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
44.167
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
possibly collection of Earls of Pembroke (England)
collection of Miss Ure (Allenbury Lodge, Forest Hill, Great Britain) (Anthony F. Reyre, New York, New York, USA)
(Hammer Galleries, New York, New York, USA)
1944-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with funds from Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb
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Opening Exhibition. Exh. cat., George Thomas Hunter Gallery of Art. Chattanooga, 1952.
Picture of the Month. Exh. cat., Fort Wayne Art School and Museum. Fort Wayne, 1953.
Richardson, E.P. Catalogue of the Whitcomb Gifts to The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1954, pp. 58-59.
Community Angels Build. Exh. cat., Grand Rapids Art Gallery. Grand Rapids, December 1959.
Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century: The Collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 38-40, (repr.) [as attributed to Anthony van Dyck].
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attributed to Anton van Dyck, Young Gentleman (Earl of Downe?), ca. 1640, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar B. Whitcomb, 44.167.
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