Provenance

Prince Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

German, died 1885

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Shown from the thighs up, a man with pale, peachy skin looks at us in front of a dark gray background in this vertical portrait painting. His body and head angle to our right so he looks out of the corners of his brown eyes under dark, cocked brows. He has a rounded nose, flushed cheeks, the suggestion of a goatee, and his full, pale pink lips are closed. His face is nestled in a narrow froth of lace that lines the top of the high collar of his pale yellow jerkin. Eight iron-gray buttons line the front of the collar and continue down onto the chest. The jerkin is slashed vertically down the front and both short, cap sleeves. A black belt fits tightly around his narrow waist and a sword hangs from the far hip. The long sleeves under the jerkin are charcoal gray, as are the puffy tops of his pants, His right elbow, to our left, is slightly bent as his arm rests by his side. The backs of his other fingers rest in a loose fist against his far hip. A dark triangular form in the lower left corner of the painting could be the corner of a dark table. An inscription to the left of the man’s head reads “AE.S.20 Ao. 1558.”
Anonymous Artist, Portrait of a Young Man, 1558, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.79

Portrait of a Young Man

Anonymous Artist · 1558 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1961.9.79

Bibliography

1871

  • Lehner, F.A. von. Fürstlich Hohenzollernsches Museum für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Verneichniss der Gemälde. Sigmaringen, 1871; 2d ed., 1883.

1928

  • Drey, A.S. Flemish Primitives Formerly in the Collection of the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. New York, 1928.