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.
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.
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.).
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.).