Portrait of a Scholar

Title

[Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood	[Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]
Poplar	[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853] (accessed 25.06.2014)

This unusually sensitively painted portrait shows a middle-aged man in half-length, in three-quarter view, facing to the right. Extremely thinly and delicately rendered, it has an olive-grey background. The sitter wears a doctor's biretta and a lavishly fur-lined 'studying gown' in the Venetian style. He may have been a judge,

[1] Information from Dr. W. Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley

[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853]

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]

Production dates: about 1515
about 1515

Production dates

about 1515	[Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]
about 1515	Friedländer, Certificate of 28/IV/50 (Amsterdam) in Kress Archive [http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853]
1515 - 1518	Suida, Statement in Kress Archive, c. 1958[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853]
1520 - 1525 [1528]	Letter from Dr. Dieter Koepplin, Kress Archive, 12 Nov. 1967[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 40.6 x 26.4 cm (16 x 10 3/8 in.)

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 40.6 x 26.4 cm (16 x 10 3/8 in.)
[Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]
41.3 x 27 cm (16.25 x 10 5/8 in.)
[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853]
Dimensions including frame: 58.4 x 44.1 x 5.7 cm (23 x 17 3/8 x 2 1/4 in.)
[Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]

Signature / Dating: None

Owner: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables
Repository: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables
Location: Coral Gables

CDA ID: US_LAMUoM_61-038-000
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/US_LAMUoM_61-038-000/

Provenance

Collection of Dr. J. Goldschmidt, Berlin, Germany by 1923
Private Collection, Glasgow, Scotland
Collection of Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, England by 1949
Collection of Paul Dray, New York, NY.
Collection of Samuel H. Kress, New York, NY in October 1951
Donated to the Lowe Art Museum in 1961 by The Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, NY.
[Lowe Art Museum, revised 2015]

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Cat. Coral Gables 1989

Editor	Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables
Title	The Renaissance and Baroque Collection, Featuring the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami
Place of Publication	Coral Gables [?]
Year of Publication	1989

Show Literature

Eisler 1977

K1853

Author	Colin T. Eisler
Title	Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. European Schools Excluding Italian.
Place of Publication	Oxford
Year of Publication	1977

Show Literature

Portrait of a Scholar, about 1515

Images

Documents

Condition Reports

upper left corner replaced at an unknown date
losses along top border
some abrasion, especially in area of ear

[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853] (accessed 25.06.2014)

Conservation History

Date1960

cleaned and restored in 1960

[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853] (accessed 25.06.2014)

Date1955

cradled by Modestini in 1955

[http://www.kressfoundation.org/uploadedFiles/Kress_Collection/European%20Paintings%20Excluding%20Italian_catalogue.pdf, 23, K1853] (accessed 25.06.2014)

conservation treatment by Modestini

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