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]

Title

Portrait of an unknown woman [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 491]

[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, 296-298]

Production date
about 1570 - 1580

Production date

about 1570 - 1580

[Heinz 1975, 168]

Dimensions
Dimension of painted surface: 27.5 x 18.3 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimension of painted surface: 27.5 x 18.3 cm

  • Dimensions of support: approx. 50 x 35 cm

  • [Heinz 1975, 170, 296-298]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Repository
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Location
Vienna
CDA ID
AT_KHM_GG9691-fol491
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/AT_KHM_GG9691-fol491/

Connected Works

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], about 1570 - 1580
  • AT_KHM_GG9691-fol489
  • 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 298 217 429, 189
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 woman [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 491], about 1570 - 1580

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