"Portrait of an elderly man" ( Dutch. Portret van een oude man , English Portrait of an Old Man [1] ) - a picture painted by the Flemish artist Hans Memling ( Hans Memling , 1433 / 1435-1494) about 1475. The name of the picture is sometimes translated into Russian as “Portrait of an old man” or “Portrait of an old man”. The painting is on permanent display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . It is painted in oil on wood, the size is 26.4 × 19.4 cm , the size of the actual image is 25.4 × 18.4 cm [1] .
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| Hans Memling | ||
| Portrait of an elderly man . about 1475 | ||
| the nether Portret van een oude man | ||
| Wood , oil . 26.4 × 19.4 cm | ||
| Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York | ||
| ( inv. 14.40.648 ) | ||
History and Description
The picture shows an elderly man sitting with his hands folded calmly in front of him - the fingers of his hands are visible at the bottom of the picture. It is believed that this portrait was a diptych with the " Portrait of an Elderly Woman " (his wife), which is currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston [2] . This assumption was first expressed by art critic Jack Schrader in 1970 [3] .
Until 1895, "Portrait of an Elderly Man" was in a private collection in England. In 1895, it was sold to Albert von Oppenheim from Cologne , who died in 1912. In 1912, the painting was sold for 82 000 dollars to businessman and collector from New York Benjamin Altman ( Benjamin Altman ) [1] . Benjamin Altman died in 1913, bequeathing his collection to the Metropolitan Museum [4] [5] , in which, in addition to this picture, there were other Memling works - portraits of Tommaso di Folco Portinari [6] and Maria Maddalena Portinari [7] .
This is not the only picture of the artist with this name - Memling's other painting “Portrait of an Elderly Man”, painted in 1470-1475 and stored in the State Museums of Berlin, is also known [8] .
See also
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Portrait of an Old Man - Hans Memling (HTML). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Date of treatment May 7, 2012. Archived on September 20, 2012.
- ↑ European Painting and Sculpture - Portrait of an Old Woman (HTML). The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Date of treatment May 7, 2012. Archived on September 20, 2012.
- ↑ Edger Peters Bowron, Mary G. Morton. Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . - Princeton University Press, 2000. - S. 19-21. - 238 p. - ISBN 978-0-691-00460-0 . Archived September 12, 2014 on Wayback Machine
- ↑ Francis Haskell. The Benjamin Altman Bequest (PDF). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Date of treatment June 27, 2012. Archived July 5, 2013.
- ↑ Handbook of the Benjamin Altman collection . - Gilliss Press, 1914. - S. 74-76. - 153 p.
- ↑ Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428-1501) - Hans Memling (HTML). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Date of treatment June 27, 2013. Archived July 3, 2013.
- ↑ Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456) - Hans Memling (HTML). The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Date of treatment June 27, 2013. Archived July 3, 2013.
- ↑ Portrait of an Old Man, 1470-75, Hans Memling (HTML). www.the-athenaeum.org. The appeal date is June 27, 2013.