Portrait of a gentleman at the of 35

Portrait of a gentleman at the of 35

Title

Portrait of a gentleman at the of 35

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 416]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 416]

The painting depicts a half-length portrait of a man against a plain background. His sumptuous dark coat has decorative buttoned slits on the sleeves, revealing his undergarment with its elaborate brocade pattern. He is wearing a dark beret and has a small horizontal beard along his chin line. He has

The painting depicts a half-length portrait of a man against a plain background. His sumptuous dark coat has decorative buttoned slits on the sleeves, revealing his undergarment with its elaborate brocade pattern. He is wearing a dark beret and has a small horizontal beard along his chin line. He has a signet ring on the index finger of his left hand. The sitter is facing to the right and the direction of his gaze is also to the right. While his voluminous coat fills the pictorial space to the edge on the right, the artist has retained the space on the left hand side. This has created a compositional imbalance, which is compounded by the fact that the sitter has been shifted to the right of the central axis.

[Daniel Görres, cda 2018]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 416]

Production date
1538

Production date

1538

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 49.7 x 35.3 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 49.7 x 35.3 cm

  • [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 416]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the bottom left: serpent with dropped wings, facing right

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the bottom left: serpent with dropped wings, facing right

  • [cda 2018]

Inscriptions and Labels
  • top left:
    'ANNODO: M.D.XXXVIII
    AETATI SVAEXXXV'
    [cda 2018]

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • top left:
  • 'ANNODO: M.D.XXXVIII

  • AETATI SVAEXXXV'

  • [cda 2018]

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P213
FR (1978) Nr.
FR416
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P213/

Provenance

  • possibly Wolf Martin Ehrmann von Falkenau, Linz, Austria
  • Benedictine Abbey, Lambach, Austria, from the 18th century to before 1918
  • before 1918 with Galerie Alte Kunst, Munich
  • Kleinberger
  • by whom sold to Howard Young Galleries, New York, circa 1927
  • by whom sold to Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester, Chicago, 1930
  • By whom bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago in 1945
  • Sotheby's New York, Old Master Paintings, 27 January 2005 - 28 January 2005, lot 188
    [Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/de/auctions/ecatalogue/2005/old-master-paintings-n08061/lot.188.html; accessed 13-02-2018]
  • Private collection
    [cda 2018]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 416
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
Rich 1938 40 35
AuthorDaniel Catton Rich
TitleCatalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester collection of paintings, sculpture and drawings
Place of PublicationChicago
Year of Publication1938
Kuhn 1936 44 146 pl. XXVI
AuthorCharles L. Kuhn
TitleA Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections
Place of PublicationCambridge Mass.
Year of Publication1936
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 334a
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
Primisser 1822 34
AuthorAlois Primisser
TitleReisenachrichten über Denkmäler der Kunst und des Alterthums in den österreichischen Abteien
Place of PublicationVienna
Year of Publication1822
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