Portrait of A. of Rechenberg

Portrait of A. of Rechenberg

Title

Portrait of A. of Rechenberg

[Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 93]

Painting on beech wood

Medium

Painting on beech wood

[Peter Klein, report 2008]
Lime wood [mistakenly]
[Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 93]

The sitter is depicted as a half-length figure in three-quarter profile. He wears a black, slitted robe and a broad-rimmed black hat with feathers. In his right hand he holds a sword of which only the hilt is visible. On the index finger of his left hand he wears a

The sitter is depicted as a half-length figure in three-quarter profile. He wears a black, slitted robe and a broad-rimmed black hat with feathers. In his right hand he holds a sword of which only the hilt is visible. On the index finger of his left hand he wears a signet ring with two golden rakes on a red background and the letters 'A V R' above. Behind him a light blue sky and an expansive landscape is visible.

[Görres, cda 2012]

Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Elder (Workshop)
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Elder (Workshop)

[Heydenreich, cda 2011]

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 93]
[Michaelson 1902, 108]

Hans Cranach

[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, no. 626]

Production dates
about 1532 - 1535
about 1530 - 1535

Production dates

about 1532 - 1535

[Heydenreich, cda, 2011]

about 1530 - 1535

[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, no. 626]

about 1535 - 1537

[Michaelson 1902, 108]

about 1535 - 1539

'late 1530s' [Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 93]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 57 x 37.5 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 57 x 37.5 cm

  • [Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 93]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia on the hilt: winged serpent with elevated wings; black paint

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia on the hilt: winged serpent with elevated wings; black paint

  • [Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 93]

Inscriptions and Labels
  • on the signet ring, the coat-of-arms and the letters: 'A V R' and two crossed golden rakes
    [Cat. …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • on the signet ring, the coat-of-arms and the letters:

  • 'A V R' and two crossed golden rakes

  • [Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 93]

Owner
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Repository
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Location
Karlsruhe
CDA ID
DE_SKK_0122
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SKK_0122/

Provenance

  • the collection of the Margrave of Baden
  • possibly originally from the collection of Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden-Baden and his wife Sibylla Augusta, but could also be from the collection of the Baden-Durlach family line and the same painting as that recorded in the inventory of Margrave Hofes of Basel 1688 under No. 136: "Ein Conterfät von einem Mann, mit einem Paretle, so einen Degen in beiden Händen hält." (A portrait of a man with a paretle holding a sword in both hands)
    [Renner 1941, 61, pl. 3][1]

[1][Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 93]

Exhibitions

Basel 1974, no. 626

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Heydenreich 2015 121, Fn. 44
AuthorGunnar Heydenreich
TitleHans Cranach. Auf der Suche nach seinem verlorenen Oeuvre
Publicationin Elke A. Werner, Anne Eusterschulte, Gunnar Heydenreich, eds., Lucas Cranach der Jüngere und die Reformation der Bilder
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
Link https://lucascranach.org/application/files/5415/6232/3883/Heydenreich_2015_-_Hans_Cranach.pdf
Pages116 -127
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974/1976 707, 709 No. 626 Fig. 351
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
Show Literature
Cat. Karlsruhe 1966 93
AuthorJan Lauts
TitleStaatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. Katalog Alter Meister bis 1800
Volume1, 2
Place of PublicationKarlsruhe
Year of Publication1966
Show Literature
Renner 1941 61 pl. 3
AuthorAnna Maria Renner
TitleDie Kunstinventare der Markgrafen von Baden-Baden
Place of PublicationBühl-Baden
Year of Publication1941
Show Literature
Michaelson 1902 108
AuthorHedwig Michaelson
TitleLukas Cranach der Ältere. Untersuchung über die stilistische Entwicklung seiner Kunst
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1902
Show Literature

Research History / Discussion

'To Balthasar of Rechenbergck No. 268; to Rudolf of Rechenberg, who together with four other men was commissioned with the reformist visitation in the Albertine-Saxon Dukedom of Duke Heinrich in 1539: [Höss 1956, 390]. The man, whose signet ring shows two crossed rakes and the initials A V R, wears a wedding wreath over his beret (like No. 627 or FR244) and a sword with hunting gadgets on the side; there is a thin strip of landscape in the background (see Koepplin. Cuspinian, 81, Fn. 198).

Michaelson: «about 1535-37; attributed to the (workshop) in the catalogue; appears to be an autograph work ». Lauts: «apparently... autograph work [L. Cranachs the Elder] from the later 30s».

The attribution to Hans Cranach suggested here is only substantiated by the strikingly fluid, loosely wavy brushstrokes in the shirt and the peacocks feathers (comparable with the pattern of the shirt in No. 625 and the fluid rendering of the brocade pattern in No. 620; compare also the comments on Hans Cranach's style under No. 625). The shirt collar lacks vitality, but corresponds with Hans Cranach's style in the subtle gradation of texture to a tonal entity of parallel strokes.'

[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, no. 626]

  • Portrait of A. of Rechenberg, about 1532 - 1535

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Technical studies

07. 2011Technical examination / Scientific analysis

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Underdrawing

- an underdrawing is not readily visible; possibly executed employing a fluid, black medium and a brush

[Smith, Sandner, Heydenreich, cda 2012]

  • photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich
  • photographed by Ingo Sandner

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