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Portrait of Justus van Wyck

Artist Willem Moreelse (Dutch, 1618/1623-1666)
Place of OriginNetherlands
Date1647
DimensionsH: 32 5/8 in. (82.8 cm); W: 26 3/8 in. (67 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1962.70
Not on View
Published References

Saisselin, R.G., Style, Truth and the Portrait, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963, no. 14.

"Treasures for Toledo," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, vol. 7, no. 4, Winter 1964, repr. p. 87.

Frankfurter, A., "Museum Evaluations, 2: Toledo," Art News, LXIII, no. 9, Jan. 1965, pp. 26, 56, fig. 4.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 114-115, pl. 128.

Zo wijd de wereld strekt, The Hague, Mauritshuis, 1979, no. 243, repr. p. 183.

Wilson, William H., Dutch Seventeenth Century Portraiture: the Golden Age, Sarasota, 1980, repr. fig. 15, with some text (not in exhibition.).

Palmer, Robert Roswell et al., A History of the Modern World to 1815, 9th ed., New York, Knopf, 2002, p. 273, repr.

Dixon, Laurinda S., "Privileged Piety: Melancholia and the Herbal Tradition", Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol. 1, issue 2, 2009, p. 11, repr. col. fig. 20.

Clingerman, Forrest, "From Artwork to Place: Finding the Voices of Moreelse, Bacon, and Beuys at the Hermeneutical Intersection of Culture and Nature," Environmental Philosophy, 2011, pp. 5-7, repr. cover.

Dixon, Laurinda S., The Dark Side of Genius: the Melancholic Persona in Art, ca. 1500-1700, University Park, PA, 2013, pp. 103-106, fig. 73, repr. (col.) p. 104. Moqtaderi, Heather and Lara Yeager-Crasselt, An Inner World: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, Philadelphia, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, April 1, 2021, p. 52, fig. 4.4 repr. (col.), p. 51 Zuidervaart, Huib J., "Willem Moreelse’s portret van een Utrechtse promovendus uit 1647. Wie is hier afgebeeld en in welke context?," July 9, 2025

Exhibition History

Cleveland Museum of Art, Style, Truth and the Portrait, 1963, no. 14.

The Hague, Mauritshuis, Zo wijd de wereld strekt, 1979-1980, no. 243.

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