Young Man

Jan Cossiers Flemish, 1600-1671

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About the Artwork

Young Man

ca. 1650

Jan Cossiers

1600-1671

Flemish

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 38 3/16 × 29 13/16 inches (97 × 75.8 cm) Framed: 48 1/2 × 40 1/2 × 4 5/8 inches (123.2 × 102.9 × 11.7 cm)

Paintings

European Painting

Gift of Grace Briggs Howenstein

79.14

This work is in the public domain.

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Signed, at base of column, to left of figure: COSSIERS F.

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Provenance

from 1767, Princes of Liechtenstein (Vienna, Austria)

1922, (Glückselig, Vienna, Austria)

until 1928, Countess de la Béraudière (Paris, France)

1928-1930, (Howard Young Galleries, New York, New York, USA) [as Anthony van Dyck]

by 1949, Grace Briggs Howenstein (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1979-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Fanti, V. Descrizione Completa di Lichtenstein. Vienna, 1767, p. 75, no. 373. [as by Van Dyck.]

Description des Tableaux et Des Pieces de Sculpture de la Maison de Liechtenstein. Vienna, 1780, p. 217, no. 660. [as by Van Dyck.]

Katalog der Furstlich Liechtensteinischen Bildergalerie. Vienna, 1873, p. 16, no. 123. [as by Van Dyck.]

The Art News 28, no. 30, April 26, 1930, (ill.) in an advertisement [as Anthony van Dyck, Portrait of a Spanish Gentleman.]

Frankfurter, A. Portrait of a Young Man by Anthony Van Dyck. New York, 1934. [as by Van Dyck.]

Held, J.S. Flemish and German Paintings of the 17th Century, The Collections of The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1982, pp. 25-26, pl. II (color).

Bauman, G.C. and W. Liedtke. Flemish Paintings in America. Antwerp, 1992, p. 324, no. 160 (ill.).

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, 18, 19 (ill.).

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Jan Cossiers, Young Man, ca. 1650, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Grace Briggs Howenstein, 79.14.

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