Portrait of a Gentleman

Title

[Auct. Cat. London 2008, No. 11]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Auct. Cat. London 2008, No. 11]

A half-length portrait of a gentleman in a fur-trimmed coat and gold-embroidered collar set with pearls, wearing the floral diadem of a bridegroom.

[cda 2016]

Attribution: Master of the Mass of St Gregory

Attribution

Master of the Mass of St Gregory

[Auct. Cat. London 2008, No. 11]

Production date: 1527

Production date

1527

[dated]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 55.9 x 41.3 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 55.9 x 41.3 cm
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Signature / Dating: Dated at the top left: 'M.D.XX VII.'

Signature / Dating

Dated at the top left: 'M.D.XX VII.'

Inscriptions and Labels: With the initials 'HF' and the monogram 'IH' in reverse on sitter's signet ring

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Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

With the initials 'HF' and the monogram 'IH' in reverse on sitter's signet ring
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Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P136
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P136/

Provenance

L. Hess, Wiesbaden, 1910 [1]
on loan to the Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (Inv. No. 1095) [2]
1929 returned to owner [2]
Sotheby's London, 09.12.1981, No. 21 (as Lucas Cranach the Younger) [3]
Christie's 2008, Lot 11
[1][Auct. Cat. London 2008, No. 11]
[2] [Letter from L. Meyer to Christies, 3.02.2004, in the Archive D. Koepplin]
[3] [hand-written annotation on the reverse of a photograph in the Archive D. Koepplin]

Exhibitions

Wiesbaden 1920

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Auct. Cat. London 2008 B

Editor	Christie's Fine Art Auction House, London
Title	Old Master Paintings, Christie's London, 2008
Place of Publication	London
Year of Publication	2008

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Auct. Cat. London 1981 B

Editor	Sotheby's Auction House, London
Title	Old Master Paintings, Sotheby's London, 09.12.1981
Place of Publication	London
Year of Publication	1981

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Cohen 1910

223 - 224

Author	Walter Cohen
Title	Die Ausstellung alter Gemälde aus Wiesbadener Privatbesitz
Journal	Cicerone
Issue	2 (1910)
Year of Publication	1910
Link	http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/volltexte/2014/2609
Pages	221-225

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Research History / Discussion

The present painting belongs to a group of pictures that can be placed under the sobriquet 'the Master of the Mass of Saint Gregory', who takes his name from the several representations of this subject which were all painted for Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg. [...] twelve portraits [by him] are known [...]

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Portrait of a Gentleman, 1527

Images

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