Frans Hals (I)

Illustration number 1001661218
Dimensions: 517x650 pixels
License under CC BY-NC by Photo credit: Historic England Archive

Illustration number IB00035638
Dimensions: 2077x2610 pixels
License undetermined

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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 71.2 x 61 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

unsigned, undated

Current attribution: Frans Hals (I)

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: 1633 (1633)

dateable on the basis of the engraving by Adriaen Matham

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Portret van Pieter van den Broecke (1585-1640)
English title: Portrait of Pieter van den Broecke (1585-1640)
Genre: portrait
Keywords: portrait, man's portrait, half-length, head to the right, body facing right, sitting, facing front, chair, smiling, goatee, moustache, hand on side, lace cuff/cuffs, flat lace collar with tassels, chain diagonally across chest

Represented

IB number Number related to the portrait iconography collection RKD.: 35638

Pieter van den Broecke 1585-02-23 - 1640-12-01

Name: Broecke, Pieter van den
Initials: P.
Sex: M
Date/place of birth: Antwerpen (stad) 1585-02-23
Date/place of death: Malakka 1640-12-01
died in 1640 in the naval battle of Malacca
Occupation: merchant; trader in West Africa 1605-1612; principal merchant 1613; commercial fleet commander; admiral 1630; first director Dutch East India Company in Suratte (India)

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

used as model for
Henry Marriott Paget, Portret van Pieter van den Broecke (1585-1640)
copied in print by
Adriaen Matham, Portret van Pieter van den Broecke (1585-1640)
copied in print by
Adriaen Matham, Portret van Pieter van den Broecke (1585-1640)
related to
Isaac Ledeboer, Portret van Pieter van den Broecke
according to the inscription and the Rijksmuseum website, Ledeboer based his print on Hals's painted portrait
used as model for
Anoniem
copy, oil on canvas, 63,5 x 52 cm, sale [location/auction house unknown], 9 April 1954, lot no. 123 (Slive 1970-1974, vol. 3 (1974), no. 84)

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection John Waterloo Wilson, Paris
- 1881-03-14
private collection Eugène Secrétan, Paris
1881-03-14 - 1889-07-01
private collection Earl of Iveagh, London (England)
1889 - bought by Agnew for the earl of Iveagh at the 1889 auction (Slive 1970-1974, vol. 3 (1974), p. 51)
Kenwood The Iveagh Bequest, Hampstead (London) , inv./cat.nr 51 (88028830)
bequest of the Earl of Iveagh
1927 -

Auction(s)

Exp.: Petit, C. P.: Pillet (Paris) 1881-03-14 - 1881-03-16, lotnr. 59
Contributor John Waterloo Wilson
Name buyer : E. Secrétan , 78100 FRF
Boussod, Valadon (Paris) 1889-07-01 - 1889-07-04, lotnr. 123
Contributor E. Secrétan
Name buyer : Agnes for the Earl of Iveagh , 110500 FRF

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Collection de M. John W. Wilson : exposée dans la galerie du Cercle artistique et littéraire de Bruxelles au profit des pauvres de cette ville Cercle Artistique & Littéraire , Brussels , 1873 - 1874 , p. 84, engraved by Leopold Flameng
Exposition de peinture : cent chefs-d'oeuvre des collections parisiennes [Parijs, 1883] Galerie Georges Petit , Paris , 1883-06-12 - 1884 , cat. no. 1
Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School [etc.], [1890-1899] Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1891-01 - 1891-03 , cat. no. 121
Exhibition of works by late members of the Royal Academy and of the Iveagh Bequest of works by old masters (Kenwood Collection) Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1928-01-12 - 1929 , no. 212
Frans Hals : exhibition on the occasion of the centenary of the Municipal Museum at Haarlem : 1862-1962 Frans Halsmuseum , Haarlem (city) , 1962-06-16 - 1962-09-30 , cat. no. 33
Frans Hals [Washington 1989] National Gallery of Art [Washington] , Washington (D.C.) , 1989-10-01 - 1989-12-31 , cat. no. 44
Frans Hals [Washington 1989] Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1990-01-13 - 1990-04-08 , cat. no. 44
Frans Hals [Washington 1989] Frans Halsmuseum , Haarlem (city) , 1990-05-11 - 1990-07-22 , cat. no. 44
Dutch portraits : the age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals National Gallery [London] , London (England) , 2007-06-27 - 2007-09-16 , cat. no. 19
Frans Hals : the male portrait Wallace Collection , London (England) , 2021-09-22 - 2022-01-30 , cat. no. 4

Literature

Brussels 1873 , p. 84
Paris 1883 , no. 1
London 1890-1899 , no. 121 (1891)
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 3 (1910), no. 161
Valentiner 1923C , p. 163
London 1928A , no. 212
Ratelband/Wansinck 1950
Haarlem 1962A , no. 33
Slive 1970-1974 , vol. 1 (1970), p. 117; vol. 3 (1974), no. 84
Grimm 1972 , p. 89-90
Grimm/Montagni 1974 , no. 85
London 1978 , no. 51
Nederland's Patriciaat 1910- , vol. 71 (1987), p. 30
Grimm 1989A , no. 61
Slive/Biesboer et al. 1989 , no. 44
Ekkart/Buvelot/De Winkel 2007 , no. 19
Dickey 2017A , p. 28-29
Packer/Roy 2021 , no. 4

to be published in RKD Study: Claus Grimm, ‘Frans Hals and his workshop’, 2023, no. A1.58

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001661218)
BD/RKD/1818 - IB/XVIIB on BROECKE (img.nr. IB00035638)

Project: RKD Study: Claus Grimm, Frans Hals and his workshop

External links: this painting in the 1873 exhibition catalogue
this painting in the Galerie J.W. Wilson stock book at the Getty Research Institute, no. 224

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Creation date: 2009-07-07; Last modified date: 2023-01-11

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