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.
Markings
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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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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