The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of October 1, 2023

Portrait of an Officer

1645

Ferdinand Bol

(Dutch, 1616–1680)

Netherlands, 17th century

Etching and drypoint

Support: Cream(3) laid paper

Sheet: 13.8 x 11.2 cm (5 7/16 x 4 7/16 in.)

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1943.548

Catalogue raisonné: Hollstein 12 (III.26); TIB 51 .012 S 1

State: ii/ii

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

upper left, in plate: f bol 1645 (6 is reversed); VERSO, upper center, in graphite: [2?...] 10 (erased); lower left, in graphite: B.11; across bottom, in graphite ; C/4260 (crossed out) C27124 (crossed out) [MK?] 23085; lower right, in graphite: C 8103

Provenance
Siegfried Barden, Hamburg, stamps (Lugt 218 and 2756), lower left, verso, in black ink. (Knoedler & Co., New York 10/1/27); sold to Lewis B. Williams (1927-1943), Cleveland.
Exhibition history

Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 18-June 8, 1959).

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.548