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Young Man with a Pink
Joos van Cleve (Netherlandish, c. 1485–1540/41)

Title

Young Man with a Pink

Artist

Joos van Cleve (Netherlandish, c. 1485–1540/41)

Date

c. 1530

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

20 × 13 3/4 in. (50.8 × 34.9 cm)

Classification

Painting

Credit Line

Museum purchase

Object Number

1943.37

On View

On view

Provenance

With Hurcomb Galleries, London, by 1931;
Their sale to Howard Young (1878–1972), dealer, London [1];
With Howard Young Galleries, Inc., New York, by 1943;
His sale to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, October 1, 1943.

[1] Mr. Young purchased the painting with two other unspecified London dealers. Letter from Howard Young to Paul H. Grummann, 28 March 1943, Joslyn Art Museum, Object File.

Exhibition History

Old Masters from Midwestern Museums, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, MI, December 1, 1948–January 2, 1949.

Centennial Fine Arts Festival, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA, May 15–18, 1952.

Series of Famous Paintings, Sioux City Art Center, IA, October 1955.

Published References

Alfred Frankfurter, Portrait of a young man with a pink (New York: 1943), as by Joos van Cleef.

Gijsen Marnix, Portraits by Flemish Masters in American Collections (New York: Belgian Govt. Information Center, 1949), no. 112, (repro.).

Philip Gurney, “Van Cleef Art Among Flanders School’s Best,” Dundee and West Omaha Sun, September 29, 1960, 42, (repro.).

“‘Civilisation’ Resumes,” Omaha-World Herald, February 21, 1971, 5, (repro.).

Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 34, 36, (repro.).

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 62–63, (repro.).