Head of a man wearing a hat

Head of a man wearing a hat

Title

Head of a man wearing a hat

[cda 2026]

Drawing on laid paper
brush drawing in brown, grey, black and red wash, heightened with cream-white bodycolour

Medium

Drawing on laid paper
brush drawing in brown, grey, black and red wash, heightened with cream-white bodycolour

[BM online, accessed 20.06.2025]

'Head of a man wearing a hat; head and shoulders turned to half-right, wearing a wide-brimmed hat'

[BM online, accessed 20.06.2025]

Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Elder
German

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Elder

BM online, accessed 20.06.2025](https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1896-0511-1), [Messling, Exhib. Cat. Brussels/Paris, 128, no. 39] [Hofbauer 2010, no. 118] [Heydenreich 2007 A, 261] [Rowlands, Exhib. Cat. London 1988 B, 169, no. 140] [Rosenberg 1960, 28, no. 72] [Girshausen 1936, 38]

German

[Exhib. Cat. London 1988 B, 169, no. 140]

Production dates
about 1510 - 1515
before 1510

Production dates

about 1510 - 1515

[BM online, accessed 20.06.2025], [Messling, Exhib. Cat. Brussels/Paris, 128, no. 39] [Heydenreich 2007 A, 261] [Rowlands, Exhib. Cat. London 1988 B, 169, no. 140] [Rosenberg 1960, 28, no. 72] [Girshausen 1936, 38]

before 1510

[Hofbauer 2010, no. 118]

Dimensions
Sheet: 268 x 187 mm

Dimensions

Signature / Dating

none

Inscriptions and Labels

none none

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • none

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • none

Owner
British Museum
Repository
British Museum
Location
London
CDA ID
UK_BM_1896-0511-1
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/UK_BM_1896-0511-1/

Provenance

Exhibitions

London 1974, S. 7
London 1984, Nr. 56
London 1988, Nr. 140
Tokyo 2003
Kobe 2004
Fukuoka 2004
Niigata 2004
Brussels, Paris 2010/11, Nr. 39

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010 128 039 Fig. 39
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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Hofbauer 2010 258, 259 118 Fig. p. 259
AuthorMichael Hofbauer
TitleCranach - die Zeichnungen
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication2010
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Heydenreich 2007 A 261
AuthorGunnar Heydenreich
TitleLucas Cranach the Elder
Place of PublicationAmsterdam
Year of Publication2007
Link https://lucascranach.org/application/files/6116/2097/3099/Heydenreich_2007_Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder.pdf
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Schade 2007 93 Fig. 5
AuthorWerner Schade
TitleCranachs Berührung durch die Niederlande. Antinomien einer Reisebetrachtung
Publicationin Bodo Brinkmann, ed., Cranach der Ältere, Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt
Place of PublicationOstfildern
Year of Publication2007
Pages91-97
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Cat. London 1993 107
AuthorJohn Rowlands
TitleDrawings by German artists and artists from German-speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. The 15th C & 16th C by Artists born before 1530
VolumeVols. I and II
Place of PublicationLondon
Year of Publication1993
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Exhib. Cat. London 1988 B 169, 170, 172 140 Fig. 140
AuthorJohn Rowlands
TitleThe age of Dürer and Holbein. German drawings 1400-1550 [London, The British Museum]
Place of PublicationLondon
Year of Publication1988
Link https://archive.org/details/ageofdurerholbei0000rowl/page/160/mode/2up
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Exhib. Cat. London 1984 B 69, 71 056 pl. p. 71
AuthorJohn Rowlands
TitleMaster drawings and watercolours in the British Museum, [London, British Museum]
Place of PublicationLondon
Year of Publication1984
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Exhib. Cat. London 1974 7 007
EditorBritish Museum
TitlePortrait drawings. XV - XX centuries, [London, British Museum, 02.08- 31.12.1974]
Place of PublicationLondon
Year of Publication1974
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Zimmermann 1962 9
AuthorHeinrich Zimmermann
TitleÜber einige Bildniszeichnungen Lucas Cranachs d. J.
JournalPantheon
Issue20, no. 1 (January-February 1962)
Year of Publication1962
Pages8-12
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Rosenberg 1960 28 072 Fig. 72
AuthorJakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Zeichnungen Lucas Cranachs d.Ä.
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1960
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Thöne 1939 B 18
AuthorFriedrich Thöne
TitleLukas Cranach d. Ä. Meisterzeichnungen
Place of PublicationBurg b. M.
Year of Publication1939
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Girshausen 1936 38, 69, 70 041
AuthorTheo Ludwig Girshausen
TitleDie Handzeichnungen Lukas Cranachs des Älteren
Place of PublicationFrankfurt/Main
Year of Publication1936
Link https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.23708
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Parker 1926 31 033
AuthorKarl Theodor Parker
TitleDrawings of the Early German Schools
Place of PublicationLondon
Year of Publication1926
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Research History / Discussion

'This was acquired as an anonymous German sixteenth-century drawing and attributed to Cranach by Campbell Dodgson in 1921.'

[Exhib. Cat. London 1988 B, 172, no. 140]

Girshausen recognizes in the man's features similarities with the figure of Sixtus Oelhafen the imperial councillor who is seen next to Emperor Maximilian I. looking over the parapet on the Torgau Princes' Altarpiece [DE_SMF_1398A]. See [Girshausen 1936, 70, no. 41]

[cda 2026]

Rowlands notes a similar approach in the portrayal of features in Cranach's ‘Portrait of a man with a fur hat and collar’, dated 1514, in Bremen [DE_KHB_160-1909-8A] and sees a parallel and even more marked affinity with the ‘Portrait of a man thought to have been the mayor of Weissenfels’, dated 1515, Berlin [DE_smbGG_618A] andin the portrait drawing of the head of a man, c.1520 in Berlin [DE_SMBKSK_KdZ4478].

[Exhib. Cat. London 1988 B, 172, no. 140]

  • Head of a man wearing a hat, about 1510 - 1515

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