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Provenance

Possibly a member of the de Rothschild family, Vienna, from about 1850.[1] Baron Louis de Rothschild [1882-1955], Vienna, probably by inheritance, by 1931;[2] (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, put on consignment with M. Knoedler & Co., New York, May, 1947; transferred to Knoedler's regular stock in June with a portion owned by Rosenberg & Stiebel);[3] purchased 1952 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Not verified, but likely; stated in Ludwig Baldass, "Ein Frühwerk Hans Holbeins des Jüngeren." Kunstchronik und Kunstliteratur. Beilage zur Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst. 7/8 (1931): 61, and in M. Knoedler & Co. invoice of 6 February 1952 in NGA curatorial files.

[2] This painting was confiscated by the Nazis from the Louis de Rothschild collection in Vienna in 1938 and was destined for Hitler's planned museum in Linz, Austria. It is listed on the 20 October 1939 Vorschlag sur Verteilung der in Wien beschlagnahmte Gemaelde: Fuer das Kunstmuseum in Linz prepared by Hans Posse, and also his Verzeichnis der fuer Linz in Aussicht genommenen Gemaelde dated 31 July 1940 (OSS Consolidated Interrogation Report #4, Linz: Hitler's Museum and Library, 15 December 1945, Attachments 72 and 73, National Archives RG226/Entry 190B/Box 35, copy NGA curatorial files). The records of the Munich Central Collecting Point indicate that the painting was recovered by the Allies and restituted to Austria on 25 April 1946 with Rothschild as the presumed owner. (Munich property card #2306/7; Austrian Receipt for Cultural Property no. IIIa, item no. 29; copies in NGA curatorial files.)

[3] Letter of 10 April 1987 to John Hand from Gerald G. Stiebel, Rosenberg & Stiebel, in NGA curatorial files, gives their source for the picture as the Vienna Rothshilds; letter of 2 March 1988 to John Hand from Nancy C. Little, M. Knoedler & Co., in NGA curatorial files, describes the consignment to them from Rosenberg & Stiebel.

Exhibition History

1950
Seventeen Masters of Painting, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1950, no. 20, as by Hans Holbein the Younger.
1960
Die Malerfamilie Holbein in Basel, Kunstmuseum, Basel, 1960, no. 92, as by Ambrosius Holbein.
2011
Dürer-Cranach-Holbein. Die Entdeckung des Menschen: Das deutsche Porträt um 1500, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 2011-2012, no. 80, repro. (shown only in Munich).

Bibliography

1931
Baldass, Ludwig. "Ein Frühwerk Hans Holbeins des Jüngeren." Kunstchronik und Kunstliteratur. Beilage zur Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst. 7/8 (1931): 61-62, repro.
1945
"A Plan for Loot: Blue-Prints for a New `House of German Art'." The Illustrated London News (7 July 1945): 25, repro.
1948
Schmid, Heinrich Alfred. Hans Holbein der Jüngere: sein Aufstieg zur Meisterschaft und sein Englischer Stil. 3 vols. Basel, 1948: 1:69.
1949
Hugelshofer, Walter. "Die Anfänge Hans Holbeins des Jüngeren als Bildnismaler." Phoebus 2 (1949): 60, 67-70, repro.
1950
Hans Holbein: Die Gemälde, eine Gesamtausgabe. Basel, 1950: v. (English ed. The Paintings of Hans Holbein. First Complete Edition. London, 1950: v.)
1956
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 106, no. 38, repro., as by Hans Holbein, the Younger.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 308, repro., as by Hans Holbein, the Younger.
1960
Broadley Hugh T. German Painting in the National Gallery of Art (Booklet no. 9 in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC). Washington, 1960: 10, 36-37, color repro.
1961
Baldass, Ludwig. "Offene Fragen auf der Basler Holbein Ausstellung von 1960." Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft 15 (1961): 87, repro. 88.
1961
Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 90, 212, color fig. 82.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 69, as by Hans Holbein, the Younger.
1966
Grohn, Hans Werner. "Holbein, Ambrosius." In Kindlers Malerei Lexikon, edited by Germain Bazin, et al. 6 vols. Zürich, 1964-1971. Zürich, 1966: 3:260.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture: Illustrations (Companion to the Summary Catalogue, 1965). Washington, 1968: 60, no. 1381, repro.
1971
Salvini, Roberto and Hans Werner Grohn. L'opera pittorica completa di Holbein il Giovane. Milan, 1971: 87-88, no. 15, repro.
1975
Cinotti, Mia, ed. The National Gallery of Art of Washington and Its Paintings. Great Galleries of the World. Edinburgh, 1975: unpaginated, no. 96, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 178, 179, no. 1381, repro.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 158, no. 176, repro.
1977
Blunt, Anthony. Review of Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian (Oxford, 1977). In Apollo 105, no. 183 (May 1977): 392. (As "a borderline Holbein".)
1977
Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 32-33, color pl. (As Young Man in an Orange Hat.)
1977
Pope-Hennessy, John. "Completing the Account." Review of Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London 1977. Times Literary Supplement no. 3927 (17 June 1977).
1977
Young, Eric. Review of Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. (Oxford, 1977). In The Connoisseur 195 no. 784 (June 1977): 153.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. Washington, 1984: 158, no. 170, color repro. as by Hans Holbein the Younger.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 205, repro.
1985
Rowlands, John. Holbein. The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger. Complete Edition. Oxford, 1985: 237, no. R.42, fig. 250.
1993
Hand, John Oliver, with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, 1993: 98-102, color repro. 99.
1995
Löcher, Kurt. Review of German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries, by John Oliver Hand with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. Kunstchronik 43 no. 1 (January 1995): 17.
1998
Klinger, D. M. and Antje Hötter. Die Malerbrüder Ambrosius und Hans d.J. Holbein: Werkverzeichnis, Gemälde und Miniaturen. Nürnberg, 1998: 256-257, no. A.H. 14, repro., as by Ambrosius
2005
Sander, Jochen. Hans Holbein D.J. Tafelmaler in Basel 1515-1532. Munich, 2005: 224, 247, 249-251, 422, 466, fig. 194, color fig. 60.

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