LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on parchment laid down on panel

Measurements:

10.12 in. (25.70 cm.) (height) by 8.07 in. (20.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, and Madrid, Fundación Caja Madrid, . Durero y Cranach: Arte y humanismo en la Alemania del Renacimiento , 9 October 2007 - 6 January 2008, no. 103 (as Dürer, possibly painted in the 1490s);. Frankfurt, Städel Museum, Dürer: Kunst-Kunstler-Kontext , 23 October 2013 - 2 February 2014, no. 4.7 (as attributed to Dürer circa 1495/1500

Literature:

F. Anzelewsky, . Albrecht Dürer, Das malerische Werk , Berlin 1971, pp. 148-49, cat. no. 47, reproduced plate 48 (listed under autograph works, as probably by Dürer. circa 1497/98; as acquired by the present owner from the London art market in 1952);. A. Janeck, 'Dürer Colloquium in Nürnberg', in Kunstchronik , vol. XXV, 1972, p. 196; . M. Levey, 'To honour Albrecht Dürer. Some 1971 Manifestations', in The Burlington Magazine , vol. CXIV, no. 827, February 1972, p. 68 (as not by Dürer); . D. Kuhrmann, 'Fedja Anzelewsky, Albrecht Dürer, Das Malerische Werk' (book review), in Kunstchronik , vol. XXVI, 1973, p. 294 (as not convincingly by Dürer); . W. Stechow, 'Recent Dürer Studies' (Anzelewsky 1971 book review), in The Art Bulletin , vol. LVI, no. 2, June 1974, p. 260 (as not by Dürer); . W.L. Strauss, 'Albrecht Dürer, Das Malerische Werk by Fedja Anzelewsky' (book review), in Art Journal , vol. 34, no. 4, 1975, p. 374 (as 'difficult to be immediately convinced of its authenticity'); . F. Anzelewsky, Albrecht Dürer. Das malerische Werk, Berlin 1991, p. 150, cat. no. 47, reproduced in colour plate 41, fig. 50 (as Dürer); . M. Mende, 'Dürer als Maler. Zur Neuausgabe des Kataloges der Gemälde durch Fedja Anzelewsky', in Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg , vol. 79, 1992, p. 141, footnote 18 (as not by Dürer, nor from Nuremberg); . W. Prinz, Dürer Catalogo Completo , Florence 1996, pp. 102-03, cat. no. 18, reproduced plate 33 (as Dürer, datable to 1497/98[?]); . B. Brinkmann, in Deutsche Gemälde im Städel 1500-1550 , B. Brinkmann and S. Kemperdick (eds), Mainz 2005, pp. 150-52 (as Martin Caldenbach); . T.-H. Borchert et al., Durero y Cranach: Arte y humanismo en la Alemania del Renacimiento , exhibition catalogue, Madrid 2007, pp. 272 (Spanish) and 529 (English), cat. no. 103, reproduced p. 284 (as Dürer, possibly painted in the 1490s); . N. Wolf, Albrecht Dürer , Munich 2010, p. 277, cat. no. FW 4, reproduced in colour p. 277 (under 'Works not included in the catalogue (doubtful works)', as convincingly assigned to Caldenbach by Brinkmann and Kemperdick 2005); . J. Sander (ed.), in Dürer: Kunst-Kunstler-Kontext , exhibition catalogue, Munich 2013, p. 111, cat. no. 4.7, reproduced in colour p. 110 (as attributed to Dürer circa 1495/1500

Provenance:

Waldstein family collection, Germany and Czech Republic (their seal on the reverse of the panel);. Vischer-Forcart family collection, probably inv. no. 25, and by descent (according to an old handwritten label on the reverse); . Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Lady of Title'), London, Christie's, 6 November 1964, lot 75, for 5,500 guineas to Weitzner (as German School, circa 1520, and described as dated 1523); . Acquired by the father of the present owner there or shortly thereafter; . Thence by descent