Betrothal Portrait of a Woman
Masterpiece of the Month, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, Summer 1946, no cat.
Private collection, Scotland, by 1936;
Purchased from the latter by an unknown dealer, England, by 1936;
Purchased from the latter by Albert Duveen (1892-1965), New York, 1936 [1];
Private collection, U.S., by January 16, 1946 [2];
Purchased from the latter through Clyfford Trevor, New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1946.
NOTES:
[1] Comments by Albert Duveen dated March 5, 1940, preserved in the Frick Art Reference Library, New York, indicate the picture was once in a castle in Scotland where it had been attributed to Hans Holbein the Younger. It was sold through an unnamed English dealer to Duveen in 1936.
[2] See correspondence from Clyfford Trevor, NAMA curatorial files. Trevor described himself as a “consultant on art matters.”
Possibly Catalogue of the Genuine and Valuable Collection of Pictures, chiefly French, Flemish and Dutch, the Property of a Gentleman (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, February 20, 1824), unpaginated, as by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Catalogue of the First Part of the Extensive and Very Valuable Collection of Italian, French, and Dutch Pictures, and Some \Drawings Framed and Glazed, Formed at the Great Expense by the late George Gillow, Esquire (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, April 8, 1824), 10, as by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Written attestation by Albert Duveen, March 5, 1940, in Frick Art Reference Library, New York, as by Hans Holbein the Younger.
“Two new German Portraits Acquired by Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City Star (January 14, 1946), clipping, NAMA curatorial files.
“Masterpiece of the Month,” Gallery News (The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 12, no. 10 (Summer 1946): 3-4.
Letters between Clyfford Trevor and Paul Gardner, January-May 1946, NAMA curatorial files.
Letter from Clyfford Trevor to E. Manning, May 24, 1947, Frick Art Reference Library, New York.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 74, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 261.
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 259.
Hana Seifertová, “Kölner Bildnisse in Böhmen,” Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 50 (January 1989): 327n7.
“Damage Minor,” Newsletter (The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) (Summer 1990): unpaginated.
Mary Sanchez and Connie Bye, “Nightmare at Nelson Gallery: Worse damage,” Kansas City Star (June 16, 1990): B-1, B-5.
Amy Snider, Angie Scharnhorst, and Mary Sanchez, “Works defaced at Nelson,” Kansas City Star (June 16, 1990): A-1, A-16.
