Portrait of a Man Wearing a Hat with a Medallion, 1520/1540

Not on View

Medium

colored chalks on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

1991.182.4

Artists / Makers

German 16th century (Augsburg) (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

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)

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

Drey, A.S.
Mitchell, William
Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis
Strölin, Jacqueline
Thibaudeau, A.W.
Weigel, J.A.G.
Weigel, Rudolph
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian

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.