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Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman

1634

Frans Hals

(Dutch, c. 1581–1666)

Netherlands

Oil on canvas

Framed: 139 x 109 x 5.5 cm (54 3/4 x 42 15/16 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 117 x 87 cm (46 1/16 x 34 1/4 in.)

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1999.173

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On view at:

National Gallery, London,
Sep 30, 2023 - Jan 21, 2024

Did you know?

Roosterman may have ordered this portrait--and one of his wife--to commemorate their wedding in 1631.

Description

An extremely wealthy linen and silk merchant in Haarlem, Tieleman Roosterman was 36 years old when Frans Hals painted his portrait. Unlike many Dutch painters of the period, Hals favored strong, visible brushstrokes that convey the vitality of his sitters. Roosterman strikes a confident pose, his costume sober but luxurious: his sleeves are decorated with braid and buttons, and ribbon rosettes encircle the waist of his doublet. The rich black of his suit is offset by the broad linen collar and lace-edged cuffs—fashionable details befitting a successful cloth merchant.

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Artist biography

Frans Hals

c. 1581/85-1666

Inscriptions

Inscription

inscribed at upper right: ÆTAT SVÆ 36 / AN° 1634

Provenance

probably by 1866

Friedrich Jacob Gsell (b. 1811 or 1812 in Bischofweiler [Alsace], settled in Vienna circa 1850, died 1871)

1872

([Georg Plach] Künstlerhause, Vienna, Friedrich Jacob Gsell sale, March 14, 1872 (and successive days), lot 40 ["Ein Bravourstück des genialen Meisters"; sold for 15,200 fl. to Plach, probably on behalf of Baron Anselm von Rothschild).

1872 - 1874

Baron Anselm Mayer von Rothschild (1803-1874), Vienna (inv. no. AR866)

1874 - 1911

Baron Albert von Rothschild (1844-1911), Vienna

1911 - 1938

Baron Alphonse von Rothschild (1878-1942), Vienna

from 1938

In the possession of the Nazis. Stored initially at Kremsmünster (?); intended for the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria

c. 1944 - May 1946

While in the possession of the Nazis, moved from Kremsmünster to the salt mines at Alt Aussee, where it was stored until released to the Austrian government in May 1946.

1947 - 1999

Recovered by Alphonse von Rothschild's widow, Clarice von Rothschild (1894-1967), and "donated" by her for display at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 9009)

1999

Restituted to the Heirs of Barons Alphonse and Louis von Rothschild

1999 -

(Christie's, London, Heirs of the Barons Alphonse and Louis von Rothschild sale, July 8, 1999, no. 219, to the Cleveland Museum of Art.)

1999-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Waagen, Gustav Friedrich. Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien. Wien: W. Braumüller, 1866. Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 318

Bode, WIlhelm von. "Die Galerie Gsell in Wien." Zeitschrift für bildenden Künst 7 (1872), 181-186.

Mentioned: p. 183

Bode, Wilhelm von. Studien zur Geschichte der holländischen Malerei. Braunschweig: F. Vieweg und Sohn, 1883. Mentioned: p. 89, under no. 126

Moes, E. W., and Jean de Boschère. Frans Hals, sa vie et son œuvre. Brussels: G. van Oest & Cie., 1909. No. 131

Hofstede de Groot, C. P. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. 8 vols Translated and edited by Edward G. Hawke. London: Macmillan and Co, 1907-1927. Mentioned: vol. 3 (1910), p. 104 no. 354

Frimmel, Theodor von. Lexikon der Wiener Gemäldesammlungen. Munich: G. Müller, 1913. Mentioned: vol.1, p. 86

"A Plan for Loot: Blue-Prints for a New 'House of German Art.' How Hitler Intended to Dispose of the 'Purchased' Rothschild Collections." The Illustrated London News 207, no. 5542 (July 7, 1945), 24-25.
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 25

Baldass, Ludwig. "Two Male Portraits by Frans Hals." The Burlington Magazine 93 (1951), 181-182. Mentioned: pp. 181-2; reproduced: fig. 3

"Recent Acquisitions by the Kunsthistorischen Museum, Vienna: Three Portraits." The Connoisseur 134 (July-December 1954), 34 Mentioned: p. 34

Frans Hals: Exhibition on the Occasion of the Centenary of the Municipal Museum at Haarlem, 1862-1962. Introduction by H. P. Baard. Exh. cat. Haarlem: Frans Hals Museum, 1962. Mentioned: p. 52; Reproduced: fig. 37

Heinz, G., and Friderike Klauner. Katalog der Gemäldegalerie II / Vlamen, Holländer, Deutsche, Franzosen. Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1963. Mentioned: n.p., no. 182

Slive, Seymour. Frans Hals. 3 vols London: Phaidon, 1970-1973. Mentioned: vol. 1, pp. 115-116, vol. 3, p. 54 no. 93; Reproduced: vol. 2 pl. 154

Grimm, Claus. Frans Hals: Entwicklung, Werkanalyse, Gesamtkatalog. Berlin: Mann, 1972. Mentioned: p. 202, no.67; REproduced: fig. 91

Demus, Klaus. Katalog der Gemäldegalerie: Holländische Meister des 15., 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1972. Mentioned: p. 37

Grimm, Claus, and E. C. Montagni. L'Opera completa di Frans Hals. Milan: Rizzoli, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 96-97 no. 90; Reproduced: pl. XXXIII

Grimm, Claus. Frans Hals: das Gesamtwerk. Stuttgart: Belser, 1989. Mentioned: pp. 189, 281; Reproduced: no. 76

Biesboer, Pieter. "The Burghers of Haarlem and their Portrait Painters." In Frans Hals, 23-44. Seymour Slive et al. Exh. cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts in association with Ludion, Brussels, 1989. Mentioned: p. 33; Reproduced: p. 32, fig. 10

Du Mortier, Bianca M. "Costume in Frans Hals." In Frans Hals, 45-60. Seymour Slive et al. Exh. cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts in association with Ludion, Brussels, 1989. Mentioned: p. 56

Groen, Karin, and Ella Hendriks. "Frans Hals: A Technical Examination." In Frans Hals, 109-128. Seymour Slive et al. Exh. cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts in association with Ludion, Brussels, 1989. Mentioned: pp. 119, 121, 124, 127; Reproduced: p. 126, pl. VIIIy (cross-section)

Grimm, Claus. Frans Hals: the complete work. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1990. Mentioned: pp. 139, 281; Reproduced: no. 76:

Brandstätter, C. Die Gemäldegalerie des Kunsthistorischen Museums in Wien: Verzeichnis der Gemälde. Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1991. Mentioned: p. 65, no. 9009; Reproduced: fig. 507

Rozenberg, Silvia, and Rivka Weiss-Blok. Myth and Power: Masterpieces from Imperial Vienna, on Loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien. Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1996. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 68, fig. 66

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Restaurierte Gemälde: die Restaurierwerkstätte der Gemäldegalerie des Kunsthistorischen Museums, 1986-1996 : Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 16. Oktober 1996 bis 2. Februar 1997. Wien, Austria: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, 1996. Reproduced: no. 12

Dietrich, H. In Restaurierte Gemälde: die Restaurierwerkstätte der Gemäldegalerie des Kunsthistorischen Museums, 1986-1996. Eike Oberthaler et al., eds. Exh. cat. Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1996. Mentioned: pp. 83-84, no. 12

Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Museum of Art Buys Old Master Painting from Rothschild Collection at Christie’s Auction,” July 9, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org

Cleveland Museum of Art, “Record-Setting Old Master Painting Goes on View at CMA 1:30 Tuesday, July 27,” July 27, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org

"Calendar." The Burlington Magazine CXLI no. 1158 (September 1999), 576-580.
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 579

Eakin, Hugh, Laurie Attias, and Agnes Csonka. “Unfinished Business.” ARTnews 98, no. 8 (September 1999): 56. Reproduced: p. 56

"A Selection of 1999 Museum Acquisitions." Apollo (December 1999), 30

May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned: p. 117; Reproduced: p. 38, no. 34

Lillie, Sophie. Was einmal war: Handbuch der enteigneten Kunstsammlungen Wiens. Vienna: Czernin Verlag, 2003. Mentioned: pp. 1002, 1032 no. 866

Iacono, Margaret. Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York: The Frick Collection, 2006. Mentioned: Cat. no. 9, pp. 48-51

Kunth, Felicitas. Die Rothschild'schen Gemäldesammlungen in Wien. Vienna: Böhlau, 2006. Mentioned: pp. 58, 73, 80, 95, 101, 103, 192-193; reproduced: p. 47, and color pl. 3.

"Old Masters Visit Beachwood", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 47 no. 03, March 2007 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 3 archive.org

Liedtke, Walter A. Frans Hals: Style and Substance. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2011. Reproduced: p. 33, fig. 33

Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London, United Kingdom: Scala Publishers Ltd., 2012. Mentioned: p. 192-193

Biesboer, Pieter. "De Laughing Cavalier van Frans Hals. Een Mogelijke Identificatie." In Face Book: Studies on Dutch and Flemish Portraiture of the 16th-18th Centuries. Rudolf E. O. Ekkart, ed., 133-140. Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2012. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 135

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 184

Packer, Lelia, and Ashok Roy. Frans Hals: The Male Portrait. London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2021. Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 20-22, cat. no. 8

Mazzocca, Fernando, and Sebastian Schütze. Dai Medici ai Rothschild: mecenati, collezionisti, filantropi. Milano : Edizioni Gallerie d'Italia : Skira, 2022. Reproduced: pp. 276-277

Exhibition history

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria (from 1947 - 1999).

Art Treasures from the Vienna Collections. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and the M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (1949-1950).

Holländer des 17. Jahrhunderts. Kusnthaus, Zurich, Switzerland (November 4 - December 20, 1953).

Mostra di Pittura Olandese del Seicento. Palazzo della Esposizione, Rome, Italy (January 4 - February 14, 1954); Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy (February 25 - April 25, 1954).

Frans Hals. Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, Netherlands (1962).

Restaurierte Gemälde, Die Restaurierwerkstätte der Gemäldegalerie des Kunsthistorischen Museums.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria (October 16, 1996 - February 2, 1997).

Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Frick Collection, New York, NY (organizer) (November 8, 2006-January 28, 2007).

Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007).

Frans Hals: The Male Portraits. The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (September 22, 2021-January 30, 2022) https://www.wallacecollection.org/art/exhibitions-displays/frans-hals-th....

Frans Hals. National Gallery, London, London WC2N 5DN (organizer) (September 30, 2023-January 21, 2024) https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/exhibitions/the-credit-suisse-exhibit... Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (February 15-June 9, 2024).

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