Hans Roth [obverse]
1527
Artist, German, 1460/1461 - 1528
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 35
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (visible surface): 42.6 x 30 cm (16 3/4 x 11 13/16 in.)
framed: 49.6 x 37 cm (19 1/2 x 14 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1947.6.4.a
Associated Artworks
Hans Roth [reverse]
Bernhard Strigel
1527
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Probably Hans Roth [d. 14 March 1573] and Margarethe Vöhlin [d. 5 July 1582], Memmingen, Augsburg, and Ulm.[1] Manoli Mandelbaum, Berlin; (Julius Böhler, Munich), in January 1922; (Paul Cassirer, Berlin); purchased March 1922 by Ralph Harman [1873-1931] and Mary Batterman [d. 1951] Booth, Grosse Pointe, Michigan;[2] gift 1947 to NGA.
[1] Anton H. Konrad, letter of 5 November 1988 to John Hand, in NGA curatorial files, suggested that the pictures remained in the possession of the Roth family in the Schloss at Reutti (now New-Ulm) until 1890 when bankruptcy forced the dispersal of the collection. Since the Schloss archive is not extant, this proposal remains unverified.
[2] Provenance corroborated by letter of 9 November 1987 from Julius Böhler to John Hand, in NGA curatorial files. See also Böhler inventory card no. 22-149, Getty Research Institute (copy NGA curatorial files).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1923
Ralph H. Booth Loan Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1923, no cat.
1926
The Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters. The Detroit Institiute of Arts, (Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition from Detroit Private Collections.), 1926, no. 19.
1927
The Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1927, no. 26.
1933
A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 32a.
1939
Masterpieces of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800, New York World's Fair, 1939, no. 363.
2011
Dürer-Cranach-Holbein. Die Entdeckung des Menschen: Das deutsche Porträt um 1500, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 2011-2012, no. 168, repro. (shown only in Munich).
Bibliography
1923
Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "Ralph H. Booth Loan Collection." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 4 (1923): 51-52, repro. 54.
1924
Poland, Reginald. "Art in Detroit Homes." Art and Archaeology 17 (1924): 111, repro.
1925
Parker, Karl Theodor and Walter Hugelshofer. "Bernhardin Strigel als Zeichner." Belvedere 8 (1925): 33, n. 4, fig. 5.
1926
Götz, O., Georg Swarzenski, and A. Wolters. Ausstellung von Meisterwerken alter Malerei aus Privatbesitz. Exh. cat. Staedelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 1926: 70, under no. 201.
1929
Mayer, August L. "Bernhard Strigel als Porträtmaler." Pantheon 3 (1929): 1, repro.
1933
"A Century of Progress Exhibit List." Art News 31 (27 May 1933): 4.
1934
Hugelshofer, Walter. "Ein signiertes Bildnis von Bernhard Strigel." Pantheon 14 (1934): 306.
Stange, Alfred. Deutsche Malerei der Gotik. 11 vols. Berlin and Munich, 1934-1961. Munich, 1957: 8:150.
1936
Kuhn, Charles L. A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1936: 63, no. 258, pl. 52.
1948
Recent Additions to the Ralph and Mary Booth Collection. Washington, 1948: unpaginated, repro.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Booth: hand-picking the Renaissance." Art News 47 (March 1948): 37, repro.
1949
"Ralph and Mary Booth Bequest in der National Gallery of Art, Washington." Phoebus 2, no. 2 (1949): 71, repro.
1950
"Old Masters in America: Important Gifts to the National Gallery, Washington" The Illustrated London News (September 16, 1950): 449, repro.
1959
Rettich, Edeltraud. "Bernhard Strigel, Ergänzungen und Berichtigungen zu: Alfred Stange 'Deutsche Malerei der Gotik, VIII. Band, Schwaben'." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 22 (1959): 167.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 305, repro.
1964
Otto, Gertrud. Bernhard Strigel. Munich and Berlin, 1964: 81, 106-107, no. 87, repro. 78-79 (color), figs. 154-155.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 125.
1967
Stange, Alfred. Kritisches Verzeichnis der deutschen Tafelbilder vor Dürer. 3 vols. Munich, 1970: 2:221, no. 966.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 112, repro.
1973
Finley, David Edward. A Standard of Excellence: Andrew W. Mellon Founds the National Gallery of Art at Washington. Washington, 1973: 126.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 332, repro. 333.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 155, nos. 168-171, repro. 154.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 155, no. 164, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 382, repro.
1990
Dülberg, Angelica. Privatporträts--Geschichte und Ikonologie einer Gattung im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1990: 23, 127, 208-209, nos. 114-115, figs. 467-470.
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: 167-173, color repro. 169 (repro. of reverse 171).
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): 19.
2004
Kranz, Annette. Christoph Amberger, Bildnismaler zu Augsburg. Regensburg, 2004: 391, repro.
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 139, no. 107, color repro.
Inscriptions
across bottom on engaged frame: Gleich in gemeldtem iar ach ich, do liess ich Conterfeten mich (decorative element) 1527 (decorative element) / Und ward Octobris sechtzehn tag Alt sechsundzwaintzg iar wie ich sag (decorative element) (In the same year I too had myself portrayed. 1527. And it was the sixteenth day of October. I was twenty-six, as I say.); on ring of sitter's forefinger: (initials RH and the Roth family coat-of-arms: on dexter, a unicorn rampant; on sinister, two bars sable on argent)
Wikidata ID
Q20175874