Portrait of a Bearded Man

Title

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Lost Art online, accessed 22.05.2020]

Bust-length likeness of a bearded unknown male sitter, facing to his left with a curtain as a backdrop. Beneath his dark overcoat he is wearing a white shirt with a pleated collar and has a black beret on his head.

[cda 2020]

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Lost Art online, accessed 22.05.2020]

Production dates: about 1525
about 1530

Production dates

about 1525	[Lost Art online, accessed 22.05.2020]
about 1530	[Kunsthalle Bremen, accessed 22.11.2024]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 53 x 45 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 53 x 45 cm
[Lost Art online, accessed 22.05.2020]

Inscriptions and Labels: Reverse of the panel: - two labels: 'Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Männerbildnis' and 'Hofer – Fischer, Luzern, 19.4.1941'

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

Reverse of the panel: - two labels: 'Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Männerbildnis' and 'Hofer – Fischer, Luzern, 19.4.1941'

[Kunstverwaltung des Bundes online: accessed 22.11.2024]

Owner: Federal Republic of Germany
Repository: Kunsthalle Bremen - Der Kunstverein in Bremen
Location: Bremen

CDA ID: DE_BRD-Lost_NONE-001
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_BRD-Lost_NONE-001/

Provenance

until 1934 in the collection of the Baron of Schweppenburg, Düsseldorf-Rodersheim
1934 Julius Böhler, Munich (art market)
3.7.1941 sold by Kunsthandel AG, Lucerne to Galerie Fischer, Lucerne
20.7.1941 Hermann Göring in exchange for confiscated paintings from the ERR
Munich no. 6137
(Göring Report, p. 129; MFA&A 239/125; 457-08-68 Fischer Rev. Ber. 19.4.1952, p. 19; Schr. Saxer 28.1.1949 Appendix)
See: [Lost Art online, accessed 22.05.2020] and: [Kunstverwaltung des Bundes online: accessed 22.11.2024]
1966, Kunsthalle Bremen, Inv. no. 936-1966/18, on permanent loan from the Bundesrepublik Deutschland
[Kunsthalle Bremen, accessed 22.11.2024]

Exhibitions

Munich 1934

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Exhib. Cat. Munich 1932

Editor	Julius Wilhelm Böhler
Title	Ausstellung Altdeutsche Kunst [Munich, Julius Böhler, 06-08.1934]
Place of Publication	Munich
Year of Publication	1934

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