Portrait of a Man
c. 1507
Painter, German, c. 1480/1485 - 1538/1540
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: 39.8 x 32.3 cm (15 11/16 x 12 11/16 in.)
framed: 54 x 47 x 4.4 cm (21 1/4 x 18 1/2 x 1 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1937.1.66
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Supposedly purchased in Germany, c. 1750, by Pehr von Lagerbring [d. 1799], Sweden; sold to David Henric Hildebrand [d. 1791], Castle Ericsberg, Katrineholm, by 1770 or 1771; by descent to his son, David Gotthard Henric Hildebrand [d. 1808]; his grandson, Carl Carlsson Bonde, Castle Ericsberg, as part of the "Fideikommiss;" by descent to Carl Gotthard Carlsson Bonde, Castle Ericsberg. (Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, 1927).[1] (P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London and New York, 1927); (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1928, owned jointly with Galerie Matthiesen and P. & D. Colnaghi and Co.);[2] purchased 1928 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 19937 to NGA.
[1] This and the preceding information is corroborated by Carl Jedvard Carlsson Bonde, son of Carl Gotthard Carlsson Bonde, letter of 15 June 1976 and postcard of 16 September 1976 to John Hand, in NGA curatorial files. This information, in slightly altered form, is contained in an M. Knoedler & Co. brochure of 1928, in NGA curatorial files. John Hand also acknowledges Göran Galkenberg, stockholm, conversation of 30 October 1989, and Carl Göran Carlsson Bonde, Castle Ericsberg, for information on the Bonde family.
[2] Report of 8 March 1988 from the Getty Provenance Index, in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1907
Buchner, Ernst. "Schäufelein, Hans Leonhard." In Thieme-Becker. 37 vols. Leipzig, 1907-1950. 29 (1935):558, 559.
1917
Strömbom, Sixten Georg Mauritz. Portraitsamlingen--Ericsbergs Fideikommiss. Stockholm, 1917: 21, no. 32 (as by Dürer).
1927
Buchner, Ernst. "Der junge Schäufelein als Maler und Zeichner." In Festschrift für Max J. Friedländer zum 60. Geburtstage. Leipzig, 1927: 72.
1928
Buchner, Ernst. "Hans von Kulmbach als Bildnismaler." Pantheon 1 (1928): 135.
Winkler, Friedrich. Dürer--Des Meisters Gemälde, Kupferstiche und Holzschnitte. (Klassiker der Kunst 4). Berlin and Leipzig, 1928: repro. 45, 414, 442, 447.
1929
Wallach, Hellmuth. "Die Stilentwickelung Hans Leonhard Schäufeleins." (Ph.D. disertation Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, 1926). Teil 1. Munich, 1929: 41.
1930
Friedländer, Max J. "Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528 Portrait of a Man." In Unknown Masterpieces in Public and Private Collections, Vol. 1, ed. Wilhelm R. Valentiner. London, 1930: 1:"U.M 63," pl. 63 (as by Dürer).
Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold. Unknown Masterpieces in Public and Private Collections. London, 1930: 63, repro. (as by Dürer).
1932
Tietze, Hans. "Dürer in Amerika." Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums 45-46 (1932-1933): 101-104, figs. 66-67.
1933
Tietze, Hans. "Dürer in America." The Art Bulletin 15, no. 3 (September 1933): 268, [269], fig. 24.
1936
Kuhn, Charles L. A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1936: 54, no. 201, pl. 36.
1937
"Mellon Offers Nation $19,000,000 Collection of Old Masters." Art Digest 11, no. 8 (15 January 1937): 8, repro. 7.
Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: 43.
1938
Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers. 3 vols. Basel and Lepzig, 1938: 2:81, no. A202, 82, no. A204, repro. 219.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 61, no. 66, as by Albrecht Dürer (?).
1942
Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Hans Süss von Kulmbachs und Hans Leonhard Schäufeleins. Berlin, 1942: 114, 118.
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 240, repro. 37, as by Albrecht Dürer (?).
1943
Panofsky, Erwin. _Albrecht Dürer _. 2 vols. Princeton, (1943): 2:19, no. 98.
1949
Roggeveen, L.J. "De National Gallery of Art te Washington." Phoenix 4 no. 12 (December 1949): 340.
Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 62, repro., as by Dürer.
1957
Winkler, Friedrich. Albrect Dürer. Leben und Werk. Berlin, 1957: 191, note 2.
Białostocki, Jan and Michal Walicki. Europäische Malerei in polnischen Sammlungen, 1300-1800. Warsaw, 1957: 491, under no. 105.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 46, as by Albrecht Dürer (?).
1967
Löcher, Kurt. "Nürnberger Bildnisse nach 1520." Kunstgeschichtliche Studien für Kurt Bauch zum 70. Geburtstag von seinen Schülern. Munich, 1967: 115.
1968
Zampa, Giorgio and Angela Ottino della Chiesa. L'opera completa di Dürer. Milan, 1968: 106, no. 126, repro.
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture: Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 39, repro., as by Albrecht Dürer (?).
1973
Oehler, Lisa. "Das Dürermonogramm auf Werken der Dürerschule." Städel-Jahrbuch N.F. 4 (1973): 43, 47, fig. 12 (given to Hans von Kulmbach).
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 322, repro.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 155, no. 173, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 155, no. 167, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 369, repro.
1986
Löcher, K. "Painting in Nuremberg" and "H.S. von Kulmbach, Portrait of a Young Man." In Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg. New York and Munich, 1986: 84, 86, 350, under no. 167, fig. 95. (Also German ed., München, 1986: 84, 86, 350, under no. 167, fig. 95.)
1990
Löcher, Kurt. "Zu den frühen Nürnberger Bildnissen Hans Schäufeleins." In Hans Schäufelein. Vortäge, gehalten anlässlich des Nördlinger Symposiums im Rahmen der 7. Rieser Kulturtage in der Zeit vom 14. Mai bix 15. Mail 1988. Nordlingen, 1990: 106-110, fig. 68.
1992
Hall, Nicholas H. J., ed. Colnaghi in America: A Survey to Commemorate the First Decade of Colnaghi, New York. New York, 1992: 133.
Christoph Metzger, "Schäufelin, Hans.” In Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon_ edited by Andreas Beyer, Bénédicte Savoy and Wolf Tegethoff. 117 vol. Berlin, 1992: 101:355.
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: 160-165, color repro. 163.
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): 18.
2002
Metzger, Christof. Hans Schäufelin als Maler. Berlin, 2002: 537-539, no. X-13, repro.
2011
Fiedler, Susanne, and Torsten Knuth. "Vexierbilder einer Biographie: Dr. Heinz Mansfeld (1899-1959)." Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher 126 (2011): 300.
Inscriptions
probably by later hand, upper left in monogram: AD; probably by later hand, upper right: 1507
Wikidata ID
Q20175057