Portrait of a clean-shaven young man

Titles

Portrait of a clean-shaven young man	[cda 2019]
Albrecht Dürer (?)	[Exhib. Cat. Nuremberg 1971, 49, No. 75]

Painting on spruce

Medium

Painting on spruce

[Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 130, no. 10]

This painting is one of the earliest German portraits, in which the sitter is not shown in a room but against the backdrop of a landscape without any indication of interior.

[Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 130, no. 10]

Attributions: Lucas Cranach the Elder
Albrecht Dürer

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Elder	['?', Exhib. Cat. Vienna 2022, no. 11] ['?', Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 130, no. 10]
Albrecht Dürer	[E. Buchner, Exhib. Cat. Nuremberg 1971, 50, no. 75]
Anton Neubauer	['?', Exhib. Cat. Nuremberg 1971, 49, no. 75]

Production date: before or about 1500

Production date

before or about 1500

[Exhib. Cat. Vienna 2022, no. 11] [Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 130, no. 10]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 46 × 33 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 46 × 33 cm
[Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 130, no. 10]

Signature / Dating: None

Inscriptions and Labels: on the reverse: - 16th century inscription: 'Antho[n] Neypaurer handt / soll Albrecht dürer sein / wie er …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

on the reverse: - 16th century inscription: 'Antho[n] Neypaurer handt / soll Albrecht dürer sein / wie er Jung ist gewest'
- adhesive label with a handwritten text (17th century): 'die Handt vom Newpauer'
[Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 130, no. 10]

Owner: Hessische Hausstiftung, Kronberg
Repository: Hessische Hausstiftung, Kronberg
Location: Kronberg

CDA ID: DE_HHK_NONE-HHK003
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_HHK_NONE-HHK003/

Provenance

before 1616 in the 'Prehnsch' cabinet in Nuremberg (as a portrait of Albrecht Dürer)
[Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 130, no. 10]
until 1801 in the 'Praun'sch' cabinet, Nuremberg
then the property of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia
1851 Grand Duchess Elisabeth
1885 Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse in Schloss Fischbach b. Hirschberg / Schlesien (Inv. no. 1709)
Schlossmuseum Darmstadt (Inv. no. 24/18)
[Exhib. Cat. Nuremberg 1971, 49-50, no. 75]
after 1937 Ludwig Prince of Hesse and bei Rhein
after 1968 Margaret Princess of Hesse and bei Rhein
after 1997 Hessische Hausstiftung Kronberg
[Exhib. Cat. Vienna 2022, no. 11]

Exhibitions

Frankfurt 2007, no. 10
Winterthur 2022, no. 11

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Exhib. Cat. Vienna 2022

96, 97, 142, 143

011

Fig. p. 96

Editor	Guido Messling, Kerstin Richter
Title	Cranach. Die Anfänge in Wien [Winterthur, Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, 12.03-12.06.2022; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 21.06-16.10.2022]
Place of Publication	Munich
Year of Publication	2022

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Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007

130

No. 10

Fig. p. 131

Editor	Bodo Brinkmann
Title	Cranach der Ältere, [Frankfurt, Städel Museum, 23 Nov 2007 - 17 Feb 2008]
Place of Publication	Ostfildern
Year of Publication	2007

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Exhib. Cat. Nuremberg 1971

49-50

No. 75

Editor	Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg
Title	Albrecht Dürer 1471 - 1971, Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 21 May - 1 Aug 1971
Place of Publication	Munich
Year of Publication	1971

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Research History / Discussion

The painting once decorated the 10 Mark note as an early work by Albrecht Dürer. The attribution was based on the fact that the author of the inscription on the reverse of the panel had got the painter and sitter mixed up. However the difference between this and other verified works by Dürer is too great to support the attribution.

[Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 130, No. 10]

A family called Neubauer was resident in Nuremberg, the painting’s place of origin. However a painter with this name is neither recorded through his art works nor in any form of documentation. The possibility that the sitter and artist may have been mixed up in the Praun’sch inventory licensed the speculative attribution to Dürer. However none of Dürer’s portraits exhibit a landscape across the whole width, whereas in his Viennese portraits from 1503 Cranach depicts his sitters against a landscape that occupies the entire background.

[Exhib. Cat. Nuremberg 1971, 50, no. 75]

Portrait of a clean-shaven young man, before or about 1500

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