Portrait of a Noble Man

Portrait of a Noble Man

Titles

Portrait of a Noble Man

[Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, revised 2016]

Portrait of a Man (Georg Niemeck?)

[Exhib. Cat. Wittenberg 2015, 401]

Portrait of Caspar Niemeck

[Koepplin Archive, note on verso of photography]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Auct. Cat. Frankfurt 1931, no. 820]

The painting depicts a half-length portrait of a man against a grey ground, in three-quarter profile facing right. His right hand grasps the fur collar of his black coat beneath which his white shirt peeps out. He looks out at the viewer with a slight squint. His long brown beard

The painting depicts a half-length portrait of a man against a grey ground, in three-quarter profile facing right. His right hand grasps the fur collar of his black coat beneath which his white shirt peeps out. He looks out at the viewer with a slight squint. His long brown beard is split beneath the chin, while his brown hair is covered with a black hat. Represented in the top right corner is the sitter's coat-of-arms, which is repeated on his signet ring.

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Younger

[Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, online database, accessed 19.11.2021]

Production date
1557

Production date

1557

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 84 x 52 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 84 x 52 cm

  • [Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, revised 2016]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at top right: winged serpent and dated '1557'

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at top right: winged serpent and dated '1557'

Inscriptions and Labels

  • top right: 'AETATIS SVAE 47. / ANNO 1557.'

  • on the ring:
    'IN'
    [cda 2021]

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • top right:

  • 'AETATIS SVAE 47. / ANNO 1557.'

    • on the ring:

  • 'IN'

  • [cda 2021]

Owner
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Repository
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
Location
Antwerp
CDA ID
BE_KMSKA_5047
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/BE_KMSKA_5047/

Provenance

  • before January 1897 purchased by Rodolphe Kann, Paris, in England
  • 1899 at art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris
    [Max J. Friedländer Archive, see scan]
  • Collection of Passavant-Gontard
  • 02 Dec 1931 sale at Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt/Main, lot 820, 12000 Reichsmark [see The Getty Provenance Index Database, Lot 0820 from Sale Catalog D-587]
    [Koepplin Archive, note on verso of photography]
  • in the collection of the Oberststurmführer SS Mühlman in Schloss Volters, Oostenrijk
  • recovered in Germany, 1945/1948
  • transferred to the Museum of Fine Art in 1951
    [Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, revised 2016]

Exhibitions

Frankfurt/Main 1925, no. 51
Brussels 1948, no. 12

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Wittenberg 2015 400 401
EditorRoland Enke, Jutta Strehle, Katja Schneider
TitleLucas Cranach der Jüngere - Entdeckung eines Meisters, Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Augusteum, 26 June - 1 November 2015
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
Show Literature
Zerbe 2013 509 fig. 101
AuthorDoreen Zerbe
TitleReformation der Memoria. Denkmale der Stadtkirche Wittenberg als Zeugnisse lutherischer Memorialkultur im 16. Jahrhundert
SeriesSchriften der Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt
Volume14
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication2013
Show Literature
Auct. Cat. Frankfurt 1931 39 820
EditorHugo Helbing
TitleNachlass v. Passavant-Gontard, Frankfurt am Main - Nachlass Johannes Noll, Frankfurt am Main: Sammlung Dr. Willi Wilbrand, Darmstadt ; Nachlass Landauer-Donner Frankfurt a. M. und anderer Sammlerbesitz
Place of PublicationFrankfurt/Main
Year of Publication1931
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/helbing1931_12_01
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 1925 51
AuthorGeorg Swarzenski
TitleAusstellung von Meisterwerken alter Malerei aus Privatbesitz: Sommer 1925 [Frankfurt, Städelsches Kulturinstitut]
Place of PublicationFrankfurt
Year of Publication1925
Show Literature
Auct. Cat. Paris 1899 10-11 3
AuthorCharles Sedelmeyer
TitleIllustrated Catalogue of the Fifth Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English Schools, being a portion of the Sedelmeyer Gallery
Place of PublicationParis
Year of Publication1899
Link https://archive.org/details/illustratedcatal05sede
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Conservation History

Date1977

Treatment report in the museum archive

[Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, online database, accessed 19.11.2021]

  • conservation treatment by Frederik Bender

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

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