Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man

RP-T-1940-247

• draftsman (artist): anonymous
• Caspar Netscher [rejected attribution]

c. 1650 - c. 1655

graphite, with black chalk, on vellum

height 168 mm x width 138 mm

Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

purchase 1940

Public domain

…; collection Hermanus Philippus Gerritsen (1850-1917), The Hague;{Note RMA; as ‘G 947’.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 29 (1 December) November 1939 sqq., no. 98, with over 2,100 artists’ portraits in drawing and print, bought in at fl. 3,000;{Copy RKD.} from the dealer F. Muller, Amsterdam, fl. 3,725, with 580 other drawings and prints _en bloc_, to the dealer P. Brandt for the museum, with support from the F.G. Wallerfonds, 1940

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