Portrait of an unknown man [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 489]

Portrait of an unknown man [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 489]

Title

Portrait of an unknown man [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 489]

[cda 2017]

Painting on paper

Medium

Painting on paper

[Heinz 1975, 170]

This sheet depicts one of 240 portrait minatures commissioned by the aristocrat and humanist Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf (1525-1596).

[cda 2017]

Attribution
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Exhib. Cat. Vienna 2022, no. 18] [Heinz 1975, 168]

Production date
about 1570 - 1580

Production date

about 1570 - 1580

[Heinz 1975, 168]

Dimensions
Dimension of painted surface: 27.4 x 18.3 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimension of painted surface: 27.4 x 18.3 cm

  • Dimensions of support: approx. 50 x 35 cm

  • [Heinz 1975, 170, 296]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Repository
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Location
Vienna
CDA ID
AT_KHM_GG9691-fol489
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/AT_KHM_GG9691-fol489/

Connected Works

Portrait of an unknown woman [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 491]
  • Portrait of an unknown woman [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 491], about 1570 - 1580
  • AT_KHM_GG9691-fol491
  • Painting
  • Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Provenance

  • after the death of Hieronymus Beck his library and the portrait minatures were transferred to the Court library of Archduke Matthias and probably then bound to create the present codex
  • in the 19th century this codex was in Franz Graf Lamberg's library in Pressburg
  • before 1900 it entered the Lamberg collection in Ottenstein castle, Lower Austria
  • from there it entered a private collection
  • 28.05.1973: auctioned at Hartung und Karl, Munich, no. 131
  • acquired by the Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna[1]

[1] Heinz 1975, 169-170

[Görres, cda 2017]

Exhibitions

Winterthur/Vienna 2022, no. 18

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Vienna 2022 112, 113, 144, 145 018 Fig. p. 112
EditorGuido Messling, Kerstin Richter
TitleCranach. Die Anfänge in Wien [Winterthur, Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, 12.03-12.06.2022; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 21.06-16.10.2022]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2022
Show Literature
Heinz 1975 296-298 216 428
AuthorGünther Heinz
TitleDas Porträtbuch des Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf
JournalJahrbuch der Kunsthistorischen Sammlungen in Wien
IssueN.F. 35[=71.](1975)
Year of Publication1975
Pages165-310
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  • Portrait of an unknown man [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 489], about 1570 - 1580

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