Details
Studio of Justus Suttermans (Antwerp 1597-1681 Florence)
Portrait of Ferdinand II de' Medici (1610-1670), Grand Duke of Tuscany, full-length
oil on canvas
64 3/8 x 43 ½ in. (163.6 x 110.5 cm.)
Provenance
with F. Kleinberger, Paris, by 1911; American Art Association, New York, 23 January 1918, lot 76, as 'JUSTUS SUSTERMANS' to the following.
with Scott and Fowles, New York.
with M. Knoedler & Co., New York; Christie's, London, 26 July 1935, lot 74, as 'J. SUSTERMANS'.
Jules Forges, Paris, from whose estate sold through Pier Nesi, United States of America, in April 1954 to the following.
Private collection, Venezuela, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
A.J. Wauters, 'Le Siècle de Rubens et l'Exposition d'Art ancien, Revue de Belgique, August 1910, p. 314.
P. Bautier, 'On a lost portrait by Justus Suttermans', The Burlington Magazine, July 1911, pp. 234-239, pl. A, as Justus Suttermans.
P. Bautier, Juste Suttermans: Peintre des Médicis, Brussels, 1912, p. 20, as Justus Suttermans.
K. Langedijk, The Portraits of the Medici: 15th-18th Centuries, I, Florence, 1981, p. 186; II, Florence, 1981, p. 789, no. 38 and 41.
Exhibited
Brussels, Exposition Trécentenaire, no. 431 (according to the 1918 sale catalogue; possibly identical with the following).
Brussels, Exposition d'Art Ancien: L'Art Belge au XVIIe Siècle, June-November 1910, no. 445, as 'Portrait d'un prince de la Maison de Savoie', as Justus Suttermans.
Paris, Palais du Domaine de Bagatelle, Les modes, A travers trois Siècles, 15 May-15 July 1911, no. 149, as Justus Suttermans.
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