Portrait of a Man Wearing a Hat with a Medallion

1520/1540

German 16th century (Augsburg)

Associated Names
German 16th century (Augsburg)

Artist

The image shows a portrait of a man in a side profile view. He has a long nose, a subtle mustache, a thin beard along his jawline, and medium-length hair that falls around his ears. He is wearing a wide-brimmed hat with a round, decorative element on the side. The background is plain and neutral.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    colored chalks on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 20.4 x 20.3 cm (8 1/16 x 8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1991.182.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel [1726-1798] (Lugt 3002-3), Amsterdam; (possibly sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley ... Roos, 3 March 1800, part of Album BBB, lot 49); Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig, 1838, no. 1187; J.A.G. Weigel, (sale, Stuttgart, Gutekunst, 8-15 May 1883, lot 445); William Mitchell [d. 1908] (Lugt 2638), London; (sale, Frankfurt am Main, Prestel, 7 May 1890, lot 54); A.W. Thibaudeau, Paris; A.S. Drey, Munich; F.A. Drey, London; (A. Strölin, Lausanne); purchased (via de Bayser) by Ian Woodner, New York, 25 July 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 55.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 67.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 43, as.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2012

  • Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 59.

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

2019

  • The Touch of Color: Pastels at the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1939

  • Ganz, Paul. Les dessins de Hans Holbein le jeune: Catalogue raisonné. Geneva, 1939: I, no. 10.

1996

  • Béguin, Sylvie. "Andrea Solario en France." In Léonard de Vinci entre France en Italie: 'miroir profond et sombre'. Colloque international de l'Université de Caen. Caen, 1996: 90, fig. 8.

Inscriptions

upper left in black chalk: HB (possibly the initials of the sitter); by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, verso in brown ink: Hans Holbein / gebooren Basel 1520 / gestorven London 1583. / Discepel van zyn / Vader Hans Holbeen (illegible)

Watermarks

anchor in circle with star (similar to 477-493)

Wikidata ID

Q64571990

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