Portrait of a Nobleman, Traditionally Identified as Paolo Giordano Orsini, Duke of Bracciano by ANTHONY VAN DYCK

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ANTHONY VAN DYCK (1599–1641)

Portrait of a Nobleman, Traditionally Identified as Paolo Giordano Orsini, Duke of Bracciano

Year ca. 1627-1632

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions 188.5 x 135 cm 74 x 53 1/4 in.

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Portrait of a Nobleman, Traditionally Identified as Paolo Giordano Orsini, Duke of Bracciano is an artwork by ANTHONY VAN DYCK, dated ca. 1627-1632. The work is executed in Oil on canvas. Its recorded dimensions are 188.5 x 135 cm 74 x 53 1/4 in.. View the artwork and contact Colnaghi for further information.

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Provenance

Possibly the portrait of Paolo Giordano Orsini, Duke of Bracciano, recorded in the Palazzo Piazza Santi Apostoli, Rome, in the inventory of Livio Odescalchi, Duke of Bracciano (1655–1713), compiled in 1713/14, though without attribution to an artist;
Baron E. de Beurnonville;
His sale, Paris, 9–16 May 1881, lot 265;
Count Catieu d’Auvers, Paris;
Mr and Mrs Alfred G. Wilson (1883–1962), Detroit, by 1931;
Matilda R. Wilson (1883–1967), Michigan;
By whom sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, 22 October 1970, lot 10;
With Brod Gallery, London, 1971–75;
New York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 16 June 1977, lot 86;
London, Sotheby’s, 12 December 1990, lot 71;
American private collection.

Literature

J. Guiffrey, Antoine Van Dyck: sa vie et son œuvre, Paris 1882, p. 284, no. 1001;

G. Glück, Van Dyck: des Meisters Gemälde, Klassiker der Kunst, Stuttgart 1931, p. 313;

Masterpieces from Detroit Private Collections, Detroit 1949, no. 34;

E. Larsen, The Paintings of Anthony Van Dyck, Freren 1988, no. 583;

S.J. Barnes, N. De Poorter, O. Millar and H. Vey, Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, London 2004, p. 415, no. III.A29, listed as whereabouts unknown.

The attribution of the present portrait to Anthony Van Dyck has been independently endorsed by the Rev. Dr Susan J. Barnes (2011 and 2016), Professor Christopher Brown (2017), and Dr Malcolm Rogers (2017), in written communications.

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