Portrait of Magdalena Lackner [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 627]

Portrait of Magdalena Lackner [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 627]

Title

Portrait of Magdalena Lackner [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 627]

[cda 2017]

Painting on paper

Medium

Painting on paper

[Heinz 1975, 170]

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

[cda 2017]

It could be a portrait of Magdalena Kopp, daughter of Hans Kopp, who became the second Mrs Leonhard Lackner after 1501 and died in 1555.

[Heinz 1975, 294]

Attribution
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Heinz 1975, 294]

Production date
about 1570 - 1580

Production date

about 1570 - 1580

[Heinz 1975, 168]

Dimensions
Dimension of painted surface: 27.8 x 18.7 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimension of painted surface: 27.8 x 18.7 cm

  • Dimensions of support: approx. 50 x 35 cm

  • [Heinz 1975, 170, 294]

Signature / Dating

None

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscription on fol. 628: 'des alten Lackners hausfraw'
Beneath the portrait, in pencil: 'Des alten Lackners Hausfrau'
[Heinz …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • Inscription on fol. 628: 'des alten Lackners hausfraw'

  • Beneath the portrait, in pencil: 'Des alten Lackners Hausfrau'

  • [Heinz 1975, 294]

Owner
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Repository
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Location
Vienna
CDA ID
AT_KHM_GG9691-fol627
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/AT_KHM_GG9691-fol627/

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]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Heinz 1975 294 207 425
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
  • Portrait of Magdalena Lackner [from Hieronymus Beck's portrait book, fol 627], about 1570 - 1580

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