Portrait of a Scholar

Portrait of a Scholar

Title

Portrait of a Scholar

[Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]

Poplar

[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853] (accessed 25.06.2014)

This unusually sensitively painted portrait shows a middle-aged man in half-length, in three-quarter view, facing to the right. Extremely thinly and delicately rendered, it has an olive-grey background. The sitter wears a doctor's biretta and a lavishly fur-lined 'studying gown' in the Venetian style. He may have been a judge,

This unusually sensitively painted portrait shows a middle-aged man in half-length, in three-quarter view, facing to the right. Extremely thinly and delicately rendered, it has an olive-grey background. The sitter wears a doctor's biretta and a lavishly fur-lined 'studying gown' in the Venetian style. He may have been a judge, as his garb resembles that of judges shown in J. de Damhouder, Pupellorum patrocinium, 1564. [1]

[1] Information from Dr. W. Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley

[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]

Production dates
about 1515
about 1515

Production dates

about 1515

[Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]

about 1515

Friedländer, Certificate of 28/IV/50 (Amsterdam) in Kress Archive [http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853]

1515 - 1518

Suida, Statement in Kress Archive, c. 1958[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853]

1520 - 1525 [1528]

Letter from Dr. Dieter Koepplin, Kress Archive, 12 Nov. 1967[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 40.6 x 26.4 cm (16 x 10 3/8 in.)

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 40.6 x 26.4 cm (16 x 10 3/8 in.)

  • [Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]

  • 41.3 x 27 cm (16.25 x 10 5/8 in.)

  • [http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853]

  • Dimensions including frame: 58.4 x 44.1 x 5.7 cm (23 x 17 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.)

  • [Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables
Repository
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables
Location
Coral Gables
CDA ID
US_LAMUoM_61-038-000
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/US_LAMUoM_61-038-000/

Provenance

  • Collection of Dr. J. Goldschmidt, Berlin, Germany by 1923
  • Private Collection, Glasgow, Scotland
  • Collection of Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, England by 1949
  • Collection of Paul Dray, New York, NY.
  • Collection of Samuel H. Kress, New York, NY in October 1951
  • Donated to the Lowe Art Museum in 1961 by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, NY.
    [Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Cat. Coral Gables 1989 16
EditorLowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables
TitleThe Renaissance and Baroque Collection, Featuring the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Place of PublicationCoral Gables [?]
Year of Publication1989
Show Literature
Eisler 1977 23 K1853
AuthorColin T. Eisler
TitlePaintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. European Schools Excluding Italian.
Place of PublicationOxford
Year of Publication1977
Show Literature
  • Portrait of a Scholar, about 1515

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Documents

Condition Reports

  • upper left corner replaced at an unknown date

  • losses along top border

  • some abrasion, especially in area of ear

[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853] (accessed 25.06.2014)

Conservation History

Date1960

  • cleaned and restored in 1960

[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853] (accessed 25.06.2014)

Date1955

  • cradled by Modestini in 1955

[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853] (accessed 25.06.2014)

  • conservation treatment by Modestini

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