Portrait of Rudolph Agricola

Portrait of Rudolph Agricola

Titles

Portrait of Rudolph Agricola

[CDA 2011]

Portrait of Geiler von Keisersberg (?)

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 130, No. 310]

Painting on beech wood (Fagus sylvatica)

Medium

Painting on beech wood (Fagus sylvatica)

[Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011, 133, No. 9363]
[Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010]
[Klein, Report 1992]
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 130, No. 310]

The half-length portrait depicts Rudolph Agricolas turned to the right and looking in this direction. His black clothing is contrasted by the light blue background.

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010]
[Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011, 133, No. 9363]
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 130, No. 310]

Production date
about 1532

Production date

about 1532

[Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011, 133, No. 9363]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 29.9 x 23 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 29.9 x 23 cm

  • (trimmed on all four sides)

  • [Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010]

  • [Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011, 133, No. 9363]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Repository
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Location
Munich
CDA ID
DE_BStGS_9363
FR (1978) Nr.
FR310
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_BStGS_9363/

Provenance

  • 1926 bought in Geneva
    [Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010]
    [Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011, 133, No. 9363]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011 54-55, 133 Nos. 2, 9363 Fig. p. 55
AuthorMartin Schawe
EditorBayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
TitleCranach in Bayern
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2011
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Bünsche 1998 A 63
AuthorBernd Bünsche
TitleDie Verwendung von Lochpausen bei der Anfertigung der Fürstenportraits durch Lucas Cranach den Älteren
Publicationin Ingo Sandner, Wartburg-Stiftung Eisenach and Fachhochschule Köln, ed., Unsichtbare Meisterzeichnungen auf dem Malgrund. Cranach und seine Zeitgenossen, Exhib. Cat. Eisenach
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication1998
Pages61-64
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 130 No. 310 Fig. 310
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974/1976 258, 260, 266 167 (u.) Fig. 124
AuthorDieter Koepplin, Tilman Falk
TitleLukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik
Volume1, 2
Place of PublicationBasel, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1974
Link http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-104522
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Research History / Discussion

This painting is presumably after the portrait of Geiler (woodcut) on the title page of 'Doctor Keiserbergs Postill', Strasbourg 1522.

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 130, No. 310]

Werner Schade convincing identified the sitter as Rudolph Agricola. His thesis is based on a portrait series from 1532 in the register book of the University of Wittenberg, which is attributed to Lucas Cranach and shows the 'Father of northern Humanism' as a portrait medaillon alongside Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon and Erasmus of Rotterdam.

[Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011, 54 No. 2]

  • Portrait of Rudolph Agricola, about 1532

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Documents

Technical studies

11.05.1992Scientific analysis

  • Identification of wood species / Dendrochronology

Support

- earliest date felled 1525; earliest date of production 1527

[Martin Schawe, Alte Pinakothek Munich, 26.03.2010]

  • analysed by Peter Klein

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