Portrait of a Man

Portrait of a Man

Title

Portrait of a Man

[Lowet de Wotrenge Fine Art - KD Art, e-mail correspondance 03.11.2013]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Lowet de Wotrenge Fine Art - KD Art, e-mail correspondance 03.11.2013]

The present painting is half-length portrait of a man with brown hair against a blue background. At the neckline his black gown offers a tiny glimpse of his white shirt. The sitter's beard is trimmed straight beneath his chin and he is wearing a signet ring on his left hand.

[Görres,

The present painting is half-length portrait of a man with brown hair against a blue background. At the neckline his black gown offers a tiny glimpse of his white shirt. The sitter's beard is trimmed straight beneath his chin and he is wearing a signet ring on his left hand.

[Görres, cda 2016]

Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Lowet de Wotrenge Fine Art - KD Art, e-mail correspondance 03.11.2013]
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 417]

Lucas Cranach the Younger

[cda, 2015]

Production date
1539

Production date

1539

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 61 x 40 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 61 x 40 cm

  • [Lowet de Wotrenge Fine Art - KD Art, e-mail correspondance 03.11.2013]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia above the sitter's proper right shoulder: winged serpent with dropped wings facing right and dated '1539'

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia above the sitter's proper right shoulder: winged serpent with dropped wings facing right and dated '1539'

  • [cda 2014]

Inscriptions and Labels
  • at the top edge: 'AETATIS SVAE XXXIX'
    [Lowet de Wotrenge Fine Art - KD Art, e-mail correspondance …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • at the top edge:

  • 'AETATIS SVAE XXXIX'

  • [Lowet de Wotrenge Fine Art - KD Art, e-mail correspondance 03.11.2013]

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P087
FR (1978) Nr.
FR417
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P087/

Provenance

  • Sale Castiglioni, Amsterdam, 17.11.1926, No. 48[1]
  • Max Steiner Collection, Amsterdam (private collection, The Netherlands) [2]
  • Lippmann-Rosenthal, Amsterdam (Bank)[2]
  • Berlin, Max Friedeberg Collection[1]
  • bought through the Mühlmann duty station, The Hague, 20.05.1943, for Göring[3]
  • whereabouts after 1945: Restitution, the Netherlands [1]
  • 2013 with Lowet de Wotrenge Fine Art - KD Art [1]

[1][Lowet de Wotrenge Fine Art - KD Art, e-mail correspondance 03.11.2013]
[2]Collection: DHM database:
http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/goering/dhm_goering.php?seite=5&fld_0=RMG00511
[3]http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/ccp/dhm_ccp.php?seite=6&fld_1=7139&fld_3=&auswahl=6&fld_4=&fld_4a=&fld_5=&fld_6=&fld_7=&fld_8=&fld_9=&fld_10=&suchen=Suchen (accessed 29.01.2015)

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 No. 417
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 335
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
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  • Portrait of a Man, 1539

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