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Portrait of a Man

c. 1655

Samuel Cooper

(British, 1608/09-1672)

England, 17th century

Watercolor on vellum

Framed: 8.4 x 6.5 cm (3 5/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Sight: 8 x 6.3 cm (3 1/8 x 2 1/2 in.)

The Edward B. Greene Collection 1941.551

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed left: SC [monogram]

Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art. Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951. Mentioned: p. 25, no. 3; reproduced: pl. III, no. 3 archive.org
"In Miniature." Art Digest 25 (July 1, 1951): 12. Reproduced: p. 12
Comstack, Helen. "The Edward B. Greene Collection of Miniatures." The Connoisseur 128, no. 532 (October 1951): 137-144. Reproduced: p. 139
Geneva (Switzerland). Chefs-d'oeuvre de la miniature et de la gouache. Genèva: Le Musée, 1956. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 93
"Masterpieces of Miniatures and Gouache." The Connoisseur 138 (October 1956): 82-83. Reproduced: p. 82
Foskett, Daphne, and Samuel Cooper. Samuel Cooper and His Contemporaries. London. National Portrait Gallery. Catalogues. 1973-1974. London: H.M. Stationery Off.; distributed by Pendragon House, Palo Alto, 1974. Mentioned: cat. no. 88.
Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives. 2013. Mentioned: p.86
Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl. British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art. 2013. Cat. no. 16, pp. 91-93
Exhibition history

Chefs d’Oeuvre de la Miniature et de la Gouache. Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, Switzerland (organizer) (June 15-August 15, 1956).

Samuel Cooper and His Contemporaries. National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (February 6-May 12, 1974).

Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).

Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1941.551