Portrait of a Man

Artist Antonis Mor (Antonio Moro) (Netherlandish, circa 1516/1520–circa 1575/1577)

Datecirca 1570

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions48 x 35 1/4 in. (121.9 x 89.5 cm)
Frame: 60 x 47 3/8 in. (152.4 x 120.3 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Price

Object numberG.55.4.1

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Collections

ProvenanceCreated Antwerp, Flanders [present day Belgium], ca. 1570. Aufrère (?); Sir Richard Worsley (1751–1805), Appuldurcombe House, Isle of Wight, England; Charles Anderson-Pelham, 2nd Earl of Yarborough, Brocklesby Estate, Linconshire, England (in 1854), and London (by 1857); Robert Langton Douglas (1864–1951), London; [M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1916]; Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh, July–December, 1918; [M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1918–1924]; James Horace Harding (1863–1929), New York, 1925; Thornton Realty, New York (?); Dorothea Elizabeth Allen Barney Harding (1871–1935), New York; [M. Knoedler and Co., New York, 1937]; Estate of Dorothea Elizabeth Allen Barney Harding (1871–1935), New York; [James St. L. O’Toole, New York, 1938]; [Harding sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, March 1, 1941, no. 58, as Portrait of a Gentleman] [1]; Anton Frederik Philips (1874–1951), Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1941; [Lock Galleries, New York, by 1954]; Mr. and Mrs. Ralph C. Price, Greensboro, NC; given to NCMA, 1955. [1] The work’s pendant, Portrait of a Lady, was listed as lot 57. According at an annotated copy of the catalogue in the RKD, The Hague, the work was bought in and went back to the family.