One of the more enigmatic sixteenth-century Flemish painters influenced by Gerard David (whose work may be viewed to the right), Adriaen Isenbrandt produced a body of work that is typified by small-scale, wistful portraits and devotional images. In this painting, the sitter appears against a neutral green background holding a rosary decorated with bells. This bust-length portrait probably formed the right wing of a diptych that when open, presented the sitter facing a devotional image of the Virgin and Christ Child—more specifically the Virgin of the Rosary—to whom he would appear to be repeating prayers. The condition of the work has suffered as a result of several transfers: from panel to canvas, then back to panel.
Details
- Artist Name: Adriaen Isenbrandt (Flemish, c.1490-1551)
- Title: Young Man with a Rosary
- Date: 1500-1550
- Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred to panel
- Dimensions: 16-3/4 x 12-1/2 in. (42.5 x 31.8 cm)
- Credit Line: The Norton Simon Foundation
- Accession Number: F.1965.1.032.P
- Copyright: © The Norton Simon Foundation
Object Information
[Julius Böhler & Steinmeyer, Lucerne, Switzerland, sold 1923 to;]
[Kleinberger Gallery, New York, sold 1923 for $6,250 to;]
Albert J. Kobler (1876-1936), presumably by descent to his family;
John Kobler, Westport Connecticut, J. S. Kobler, New York, Mrs. Edward A. Westfall (formerly Mrs. A. J. Kobler, d. by 1943), New York, sold by the two sons October 1947 to;
[Duveen Brothers, New York, sold 1965 to;]
The Norton Simon Foundation.
Loan Exhibition of Flemish Primitives
- F. Kleinberger Galleries (New York, N.Y.), to
An Exhibition of Flemish Paintings of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
- New York, Duveen Galleries, 1946 to
Masterworks of Flemish and Related Art. Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture
- New York, Duveen Art Galleries, 1964-02 to 1964-04
The Expressive Body: Memory, Devotion, Desire (1400-1750)
- Norton Simon Museum, 2021-10-15 to 2022-03-07
Lock, Stock and Barrel: Norton Simon's Purchase of Duveen Brothers Gallery
- Norton Simon Museum, 2014-10-24 to 2015-02-16
- Freidländer, Max J., Pantheon, pp. 1-7
- Anonymous, Art News, p. 5
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- Noe, Sidney P., American Magazine of Art, p. 39
- Sperling, Harry G., Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Flemish Primitives in the Aid of the Free Milk Fund for Babies, Inc., 1929, p. 204
- Friedländer, Max, Alteniederländische Malerei, 1933, p. 140
- Burrows, Carlyle, Parnassus, 1940, pp. 6-9
- Duveen Galleries, An Exhibition of Flemish Paintings of the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries, 1946,
- Duveen Galleries, Masterworks of Flemish and Related Art, 1964,
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. D60 p. 446
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