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Hans and Margarethe Roth

Vöhlin, Margarethe

German, he: 1501 - 1573; she: 1507 - 1582

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This is a painting depicting a heraldic coat of arms. The image features a detailed coat of arms with a central shield, adorned with black and gold sections, and additional decorative elements above it. There is a figure resembling a unicorn emerging from the crest. The background is a deep red hue. The artwork is displayed within a wooden frame with crossbars. This style is associated with displaying family crests and lineage.
Bernhard Strigel, Hans Roth [reverse], 1527, oil on panel, Ralph and Mary Booth Collection, 1947.6.4.b

Hans Roth [reverse]

Bernhard Strigel · 1527 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1947.6.4.b

This painting shows a person standing in front of a window, turned slightly to the left. The person has fair skin, light blue eyes, and reddish-brown hair that falls just above their ears. Their pink lips are set in a neutral expression. They wear a flat black hat with a wide rim, and a brown fur mantle over a black garment with a tall white ruffled collar. They are holding a round orange fruit in their left hand, with a small gold ring on their pointer finger. The background on the right appears to be a green wall decorated with a faint yellow pattern. On the left is a window or opening that shows a landscape with a blue sky over a rocky mountain with green trees and small houses with red roofs. Below the mountain is a blue river and a brown road with a rider on horseback visible in the distance.
Bernhard Strigel, Hans Roth [obverse], 1527, oil on panel, Ralph and Mary Booth Collection, 1947.6.4.a

Hans Roth [obverse]

Bernhard Strigel · 1527 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1947.6.4.a

The image shows a pattern of vertical and horizontal wooden bars forming a grid-like design. In the center, there is a rectangular panel with a decorative emblem against a red background. The emblem features swirling shapes. The structured wooden grid and ornate emblem suggest a vintage heraldic shield or coat of arms.
Bernhard Strigel, Margarethe Vöhlin [reverse], 1527, oil on panel, Ralph and Mary Booth Collection, 1947.6.5.b

Margarethe Vöhlin [reverse]

Bernhard Strigel · 1527 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1947.6.5.b

Shown from the waist up, a light-skinned woman sits angled slightly to our right in this vertical portrait painting. The woman has blue eyes, faint brows, and a sloping nose ending in a small bulb. Her upper lip is thin and her lower lip full over a slight double chin. Her blond hair is pulled back under a gold, cap-like headdress and a black, wide-brimmed hat with a shallow crown. She wears a high-necked white, black, and gold dress with intricate detailing, a gold chain necklace that falls to her waist, and a black belt with a gold clasp and medallions. She wears two gold rings set with gems on the pointer finger of her left hand, which is folded across her belly over the other hand. A scarlet-red wallcovering with pink floral designs fills two-thirds of the space behind her. The rightmost third of the background opens onto a landscape with a tall, spindly tree, a leaping animal, presumably a dog, and a bridge across a body of water leading to a town. Across another body of water, perhaps a lake, mountains are marine blue in the distance under a clear, celestial-blue sky.
Bernhard Strigel, Margarethe Vöhlin [obverse], 1527, oil on panel, Ralph and Mary Booth Collection, 1947.6.5.a

Margarethe Vöhlin [obverse]

Bernhard Strigel · 1527 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1947.6.5.a

Bibliography

1923

  • Westermann, U. "Die Vöhlin zu Memmingen." Memminger Geschichtsblätter 9 (November - December 1923), 33-40, 41-44.

1970

  • Braur, Walter. "Das Wappen der Memminger Familie Vöhlin." Memminger Geschichtsblätter (1970): 35-40.

1984

  • Rieber, Albrecht. Reutti, Stadt Neu-Ulm. Evangelische Pfarrkirche St. Margareta. Weissenhorn, 1984.

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, D.C., 1993: 170-173.