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Portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz Massa by Frans Hals Frans Hals, Dutch, 1582/83-1666
Portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz Massa, c. 1635
Oil on panel
8 3/8 x 7 3/4 in. (21.3 x 19.7 cm)
Gift of Anne R. and Amy Putnam, 1946:74
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Provenance

Viscount Henry Montagu Templetown [1799-1863], Castle Upton, County Antrim, Ireland, by June 1863; Viscount George Frederick Templetown [1802-1890], Castle Upton, County Antrim, Ireland, June 1863 by inheritance[1.]. (with J. Bohler, Munich, before 1914); (with Henry Reinhardt, New York, ca. 1914); (with Goudstikker, Amsterdam, July 1915); Marcus Kappel, Berlin, before 1923. Friedrich Bernhard Gutmann [d. 1943], Heemstede, The Netherlands, by October 1937 to sometime between October 1938 and September 1939; (with Frederic A. Stern [on consignment from Gutmann], New York, received between October 1938 and September 1939 then consigned to Arnold Seligman, Rey & Co., New York, sold June 1945)[2.]; (with Jacob M. Heimann, New York, June 1945 to August 1946); sent to the Fine Arts Gallery (now the San Diego Museum of Art), San Diego, California, on approval for purchase by Anne R. and Amy Putnam for the Museum, August 1946 to February 1947; purchased by Anne R. and Amy Putnam for the Fine Arts Society (now SDMA), San Diego, California, February 1947.

Provenance Notes

  1. According to Slive (Seymour Slive, Frans Hals. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 1974, pg. 58, no. 103), a "mutilated printed label on the back of the panel reads: ".the Will of the Right Honorable Henr[y]/[M]ontagu Templetown [Earl Templetown], deceased, is given in./.of an Heirloom, with Castle Upton, in Ireland./ June 1863." Also, "the number 1493 is inscribed in ink on the label." Viscount Henry Montagu Templetown died unmarried, and it is likely that his younger brother, George Frederick Templetown [1802-1890] inherited the Castle Upton and other property in 1863.

  2. Sold by Arnold Seligman, Rey & Co. in June 1945 to Jacob Heimann (Frederic A. Stern correspondence to Bernard Goodman, son of Friedrich Gutmann, 1945, cited in Howard J. Trienens, Landscape with Smokestacks, the Case of the Allegedly Plundered Degas. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2000; Jacob Heimann correspondence to Reginald Poland, SDMA curatorial files, August 22, 1945).