''Portrait of a Man'' is a circa 1470 oil on panel painting by
Hans Memling
Hans Memling (also spelled Memlinc; c. 1430 – 11 August 1494) was a painter active in Flanders, who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. He was born in the Middle Rhine region and probably spent his childhood in Mainz. He ...
. It is now in the
Frick Collection
The Frick Collection is an art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection (normally at the Henry Clay Frick House, currently at the 945 Madison Avenue#2021–present: Frick Madison, Frick Madison) features Old Master paintings and Europe ...
in New York, which it entered in 1968 via the Duveen art dealership.
It was first identified and published as a Memling in 1937. At the time it was in the collection of Joseph baron van der Elst (1896-1971) in Vienna and then in his castle at Oostkerke.
Sources
*Till-Holger Borchert, ''De portretten van Memling'' (tentoonstelling Brugge 2005), Ludion, 2005 (nummer 2), p. 152.
Frick Collection
category:1470s paintings
Man
A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromos ...
Man
A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromos ...
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Memling
Man
A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chromos ...