Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction
The Property of a Gentleman
Hans Süss von Kulmbach
Portrait of a man, here identified as Christoph Scheurl (1481–1542)
Auction Closed
July 3, 06:49 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 200,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Gentleman
Hans Süss von Kulmbach
Kulmbach? circa 1485–1522 Nuremberg
Portrait of a man, here identified as Christoph Scheurl (1481–1542)
inscribed with the age of the sitter upper left; dated upper right, and indistinctly signed with monogram immediately below: · I · A · 33 · / 1514 / HK
oil on limewood panel, marouflaged, unframed
40.6 x 31 cm.; 16 x 12¼ in.
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 18 November 1959, lot 71, for £6500, to Johnson;
With Edward Speelman Ltd., by 1961;
From whom acquired that year by the father of the present owner;
Thence by inheritance and descent.
Weltkunst, XXIX, 1959, no. 21, reproduced;
F.A. Van Braam, World Collector's Annuary, vol. XI, 1959, p. 219, no. 2397, reproduced p. 27;
P. Strieder, ‘[Review] Winkler, Friedrich : Hans von Kulmbach: Leben und Werk eines Fränkischen Künstlers der Dürerzeit Stadtarchiv Kulmbach, 1959’, in Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg, 50, 1960, p. 537;
P. Strieder in Meister um Albrecht Dürer, exh. cat., Nuremberg 1961, p. 107, no. 166 and under no. 167, reproduced pl. 30;
D. Oldfield, German Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin 1987, p. 37 n. 4.
Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Meister um Albrecht Dürer, 4 July – 17 September 1961, no. 166, reproduced pl. 30;
Manchester, City Art Galleries, 24 October – 10 December 1961, German Art 1400–1800 from collections in Great Britain, no. 76.
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