An enigmatic young man in a striking plumed beret anchors this Dutch Golden Age masterpiece by Pieter Harmansz Verelst, inviting you to explore and cherish this piece of history.
Entdecken Sie die lebendigen Genremalereien von Pieter Harmansz Verelst! Ein Künstler des Goldenen Zeitalters der Niederlande, bekannt für detailreiche Szenen des täglichen Lebens, Interieurs und belebte Märkte.
In the catalogues of the Stanisław August collection the painting was recorded as being the work of an artist from the circle of Rembrandt. … In the 1967 catalogue of the National Museum of Warsaw the painting was published asby Bol, with a question mark.The attribution to Bol was rejected by Albert Blankert in his monograph of the artist (1982). Blankert proposed the attribution to Pieter Verelst—or after Verelst—based on the affinities of the Łazienki Young Man in a Plumed Beret with Verelst’s Young Man with a Large Pearl on His Chestsigned and dated 1646, once in the J. Leger & Son gallery in London(panel, 64 x 45 cm), a version of which (or the same painting) was exhibited in the Newhouse Galleries in New York in 1930.A close analogy to the image of the young man under discussion and works by Verelst mentioned above are the so-called ‘self-portraits’ by Ferdinand Bol. In the years 1646– c. 1650 the artist painted a whole group of likenesses of young men similar to one another inspiredby Rembrandt’s self-portrait, made in 1639 in etching and in oils in 1640 (National Gallery in London); they repeat the same type of head andshoulders, historicizing costume, fanciful beret, rich chain and medallion. They are tronies, and therefore not portraits of a specific person, but imagined likenesses of certain characters—in thiscase ‘artists’. Verelst’s Young Man discussed here belongs to the same group. … [D. Juszczak, H. Małachowicz, The Stanisław August Collection of Paintings at the Royal Łazienki. Catalogue, Royal Łazienki Museum, Warsaw 2016, no. 108, pp. 395–397.]
