Self-Portrait with Up🌸turned M💖ustache and Raised Left Hand
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February 1, 04:16 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sir Anthony van Dyck
Antwerp 1599 - 1641 London
Self-Portrait with Upturned Mustache and Raised Left Hand
oil on canvas, an oval
canvas: 27 ¼ by 22 ⅝ in.; 69.1 by 57.5 cm.
framed: 37 ⅜ by 31 ⅝ in.; 94.9 by 80.2 cm.
Probably painted for Charles I (1600-1649), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Whitehall Palace, London, circa 1637-1639 (by circa 1639 in the "Little By-Room");
His estate sale held by Parliament, London, ꦰꦅSt. James's Palace, 9 May 1650;
Where acquired by Remigiu💛s van Leemput (1607-1675), for £15.10s;
Charles II (1630-168ꦜ5), 🎉Kind of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Whitehall Palace, London (1666 inv. no. 290, "Sr Anthony Vandyke, Sr Anthony Vandyke in an ovall");
Thence by inheritance to James II (1633-1701), King of England, Scotland𝓡, and Ireland (according to Vertue, "Sir Anthony Vandyck’s picture done b🙈y himself");
Thence by inheritance to William III (1650-1702), King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Prince of Orange, Whiteh♌all Palace, in the passage between the Closet and the Green Room, and taken to Paleis Het Loo, Appeldoorn, by 1702, mentioned in 1712 (inv. no. 11, "Antonie van Deyk, sijn Portrait, dog maer gemeen") and 1713 (inv. no. 894, "Het pourtrait van van Dijk door hem selfs");
Sold by the Dutch goveဣrnment through Jan van Beuningeꦰn, Amsterdam, Pieter Raket, 13 May 1716, lot 33 ("Van Dyck—Zyn Eygen Pourtrait, rond, door eyge hand," for 28 florins);
Certainly Colonel Geꦗor🌱ge Tomline (1813-1889), Orwell Park, Suffolk, by 1854;
Thence by inheritance to Geor𓄧ge Pretyman (1895-1979);
By whom sold, London, Chri🌞stie's, 28 July 1933, lot 27 ("Sir A. Vandyck, Portrait of the Artist, In black jacket slashed with white, white lawn collar and black cloak, in a painted oval");
Where acquired by Samuel Hartveld Galleries, Ant𒊎werp and New York;
Standish Backus, Sr., (1875-1943), New York;
Thence by inheritance to his wife, Lott🌸a ♛Estelle Backus (1884-1996);
By whose est♏ate sold, New York, Parke-Bernet, 17 December 1969, lot 7 (as After Van Dyck);
Where acquired by J. Green;
Buf🌊falo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby’s, 8 June 1988, lot 50 (as Manner of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, "Portra🧸it𝕴 of a Man");
Where acquired by a private collector;
By whom anonymously sold, New York, Chri😼stie's, 6 June 2006, lot 40 (as After Van Dyck);
Art market, London;
Where acquired by the present owner.
Probably G. Vertue, A Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures &c. belonging to King James the Second, Londo𒆙n 1758, p. 11, cat. ౠno. 124 (as Van Dyck, Self-Portrait);
G. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, L𝓡ondon 1854, vol. III, p. 441 (a𒀰s Van Dyck, Self-Portrait);
G. Glück, "Self-Portraits by Van Dyck and Jordaens," in Burlington Magazine 65, no. 380 (November 1934), ౠpp. 195-197 (as Charles I's Van Dyck Se🅘lf-Portrait);
Probably "Vertue Note Books: Volume IV," in Walpole Society 24 (1935-1936), p. 97;
Probably O. Millar, "Abraham Van der Doort’s Catalogue of the Collections of Charles I," in Walpole Society 37 (1958-1960), p. 38;
Probably O. Millar, "The Inventories and Valuations of the King’s Goods 1649-1651," in Walpole Society 43 (1970-1972), p. 267, cat. no. 178;
Probably Paintings from England: William III and The Royal Collections, R. v🐎an Leeuwen (ed.), The Hague 1988, p. 73, reproduced;
Probably K. Jonckheere, The Auction of King William’s Paintings, 1713, Amsterdam 2008, p. 262;
Van Dyck, a Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, S. Barnes, N. de Poorter, O. Millar, and H. Vey (eds.), New Haven and London 2004, p. 629, cat. no. 𒆙IV.A2, reproduced (as a later copyꩵ after Van Dyck, rectangular format);
B. Grosvenor, "A Self-portrait by Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1741) from the collection of Charles I," in British Art Journal 16, no. 3 (Wi✃nter 2015-2016), pp. 54-59, reproduced pp. 55, 57,🦄 and in infrared reflectography p. 58 (as Van Dyck);
S. Barnes, in Van Dyck, Pittore di Corte, exhibition catalogue, A.M. Bav🧜a andꦡ M.G. Bernardini (eds.), Turin 2018, p. 235, cat. no. 37 (as Van Dyck).
Antwerp, Rubenshuis Museum, long-ಌterm loan, 2016 - 2020;
Turin, Galleria Sabauda, Van Dyck, Pittore di Corte, 16 November 2018 -🅺 3 March 2019, no. 37.