Portrait Study of Count Philipp of Solms-Lich

Portrait Study of Count Philipp of Solms-Lich

Titles

Portrait Study of Count Philipp of Solms-Lich

[cda 2016]

Head of Francesco Comes

[Cat. Bautzen 1954, 55]

Painting on paper

Medium

Painting on paper

[Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010, 128, No. 40]

Portrait study of count Philipp of Solms-Lich (1468-1544), imperial councilor to Maximilian I and then Charles V. He was among the close associates of Elector Friedrich the Wise and was resident at the Wittenberg court from 1506 to 1514.

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Schade 1974, 49, 64, Pl. 115]
[Koepplin, Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 689-692, No. 609]
[Brinkmann, Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 282, No. 80]
[Messling, Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010, 128, No. 40]

Production date
about 1520

Production date

about 1520

[Museum Bautzen, revised 2016]
[Schade 1974, 49, 64, Pl. 115]
[Koepplin, Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 689-692, No. 609]
[Brinkmann, Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 282, No. 80]
[Messling, Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010, 128, No. 40]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 18 x 13.5 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 18 x 13.5 cm

  • [Heydenreich, cda 2017]

Signature / Dating

None

Inscriptions and Labels

Recto

  • top right: handwritten in brown paint (later addition): 'Francesco Comes..FDu..Di'

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Recto

    • top right: handwritten in brown paint (later addition): 'Francesco Comes..FDu..Di'
Owner
Museum Bautzen
Repository
Museum Bautzen
Location
Bautzen
CDA ID
DE_MB_L83
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_MB_L83/

Exhibitions

Brussels 2010, No. 40
Kronach 1994, No. 164
Basel 1974, No. 609

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Hofbauer 2011 270, 271 124 Fig. p. 271
AuthorMichael Hofbauer
TitleCranach - die Zeichnungen
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication2011
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Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010 128, 129 40 Fig. p. 128; Pl. p. 165
EditorBozarbooks & Lannoo, Guido Messling
TitleDie Welt des Lucas Cranach. Ein Künstler im Zeitalter von Dürer, Tizian und Metsys [anlässlich der Ausstellung "Die Welt des Lucas Cranach", Palast der Schönen Künste, Brüssel, 20. Oktober 2010 - 23. Januar 2011]
Place of PublicationBrussels
Year of Publication2010
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Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007 282, 283 80 Pl. 283
EditorBodo Brinkmann
TitleCranach der Ältere, [Frankfurt, Städel Museum, 23 Nov 2007 - 17 Feb 2008]
Place of PublicationOstfildern
Year of Publication2007
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Exhib. Cat. Kronach 1994 342f. 164
EditorClaus Grimm, Johannes Erichsen, Evamaria Brockhoff
TitleLucas Cranach. Ein Maler-Unternehmer aus Franken [Festung Rosenberg, Kronach 17.05 - 21.08.1994; Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig 07.09 - 06.11.1994]
SeriesVeröffentlichungen zur bayerischen Geschichte und Kultur
Volume26
Place of PublicationAugsburg, Coburg
Year of Publication1994
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Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974/1976 689,691, 692 609 Fig. 344
AuthorDieter Koepplin, Tilman Falk
TitleLukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik
Volume1, 2
Place of PublicationBasel, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1974
Link http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-104522
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Schade 1974 49, 64 Fig. 115
AuthorWerner Schade
TitleDie Malerfamilie Cranach
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1974
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schade1974
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Ullmann 1974 Fig. 11
AuthorErnst Ullmann
TitleLucas Cranach der Ältere. Maler und Werk
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1974
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Koepplin 1972 A 346f.
AuthorDieter Koepplin
TitleZu Cranach als Zeichner: Addenda zu Rosenbergs Katalog
JournalKunstchronik
Issue25, no. 10 (October 1972)
Year of Publication1972
Pages345-348
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Exhib. Cat. Meissen 1955 95
AuthorErnst-Heinz Lemper
TitleAlte Kunst in Sachsen (1350-1550)
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1955
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Cat. Bautzen 1954 55 40
AuthorEva Schmidt
TitleKatalog der Gemäldesammlung des Stadtmuseums Bautzen
Place of PublicationBautzen
Year of Publication1954
Link https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/570444/1
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Research History / Discussion

The sitter was identified by Schade on the basis of similarities with a portrait from 1520 of Count Philipp by Cranach's pupil Hans Döring[PRIVATE_NONE-P110].

[Koepplin, Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, No. 609]

It was at the court in Wittenberg] that Philipp first encountered Cranach [...] and he probably also met Hans Döring here, who was at the time employed in Cranach's workshop and who later became Philipp's court painter. Two portraits from 1520 of the the count by Döring (Schloss Laubach and [PRIVATE_NONE-P110]) appear to also draw on the study in Bautzen like the features of St Sebastian on the right wing of the triptychon from the same year [DE_BSE_NONE-001], which was executed in the Cranach workshop for Gabriel von Eyb, the bishop of Eichstatt (1455-1535).

[Messling, Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010, 128, 129]

  • Portrait Study of Count Philipp of Solms-Lich, about 1520

Images

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Technical studies

09. 2016Technical examination / Scientific analysis

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Underdrawing

DESCRIPTION

- an underdrawing is not readily visible

[Sandner, Heydenreich, Smith-Contini, cda 2017]

  • photographed by Ingo Sandner
  • photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich

Support

- paper support mounted on a wooden panel

- papier glued to the reverse

[Heydenreich, cda 2017]

Ground and Imprimatura

- pale ground

[Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010, 128, No. 40]

Versions

Portrait of Duke Philipp of Solms
  • Portrait of Duke Philipp of Solms, 1520
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P110
  • Painting
  • Private Collection

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