Portrait of a man, possibly the pharmacist Hans Geyger of Nuremberg (d. 1529)
Artist
Peter Gertner (Gärtner)
b. circa 1495/1500–d. after 1541, Nuremberg
DateFebruary 8, 1524
MediumOil on oak panel
Dimensions19 x 13 in. (48.3 x 33 cm)
Frame: 25 1/4 x 19 3/8 x 2 1/2 in. (64.1 x 49.2 x 6.4 cm)
Frame: 25 1/4 x 19 3/8 x 2 1/2 in. (64.1 x 49.2 x 6.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina
Object number52.9.138
On View
On viewP. Wescher, Journal of the Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore) 17 (1954), 71-75, illus.
Paul Wescher "An Unknown Portrait by Peter Gaertner." North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 3 (Autumn 1957), 1-4, illus. (b-w) 4.
W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 168 (as Portrait of a Prince), illus. (b-w).
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 166.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 150.
Kurt Löcher, "Peter Gaertner - ein Nürnberger Meister als Hofmaler des Pfalzgrafen Ottheinrich in Neuberg an der Donau," Neuberger Kollektaneenblatt, Jahrbuch 141 (1993), 9, 11, 121, illus. 16 (figure identified as Hans Geyer).
Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for Hans Geyer, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 85, illus. (color).
Sebastian Schmidt, Abbild/Selbstbild: Das Porträt in Nürnberg um 1500 (Wiesbaden: Harassowitz Verlag, 2018), no. 84, illus. (color) 351, fig. 84a, and verso (color) 351 fig. 84b.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mary Duke Biddle Gallery, “Facets of Faces: Functions of Portraits,” September 1, 1989-June 1, 1990.
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