An Unknown Man
Corneille de Lyon (The Hague 1500/10 – Lyon 1575)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1535
Materials
Oil on oak panel (circular)
Measurements
127 mm (5 in) diameter
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446780
Summary
Oil painting on oak panel (circular), An Unknown Man, Corneille de Lyon (The Hague c.1500/10 - Lyons 1575). c. 1535. A head-and-shoulders portrait of a bearded man, facing, wearing wears a black coat with salmon-pink lining visible at the neck, white shirt and black cap, against a dark green background.
Provenance
Unknown British collection (see label on back); Trotti, Paris (photo in Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art); Huldschinsky sale, Berlin, 10 May 1928, lot 62, repd.; Mortimer L. Schiff, New York; his posthumous sale, Christie's, 24 June 1938, lot 64, repd.; purchased for 2nd Viscount Bearsted for 520 gns via Sir Alec Martin (1884-1971); given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948) shortly before his death.
Makers and roles
Corneille de Lyon (The Hague 1500/10 – Lyon 1575), artist
Exhibition history
New Light on Old Masters, Squash Court Gallery, 2013
