Portrait of a Man

Artist Hans Brosamer German, circa 1500–circa 1554

Datecirca 1520

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions18 5/8 x 12 1/8 in. (47.3 x 30.8 cm)
Frame: 23 3/4 x 17 1/16 x 2 3/4 in. (60.3 x 43.3 x 7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Arthur Lehman

Object numberG.57.25.1

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ProvenanceS. Neumans, Brussels; S. Wildenstein, NY; Arthur Lehman, NY; given to NCMA, 1957
Published ReferencesPallavicini, The Margrave Pallavicini Collection: Catalogue of Knight, Frank and Rutley (London: J. Davy & Sons, 1927), 14, illus. (cited as Brosamer)

Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages Renaissance in American Collections (Cambridge, 1936), 4, 35, illus. pl. XVII.

Friederich Winkler, "Hans von Kulmbach," Pantheon 19 (1937), 1-12.

North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 1, no. 3 (Autumn 1957), illus. (b-w) 34.

I. Kunze, "Der Meister H. B. mit dem Griefenkopf," Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 8 (1941), 235.

Friedrich Winkler, Hans von Kulmbach: Leben und Werk eines fränkischen Künstlers der Dürerzeit (Freunde der Plassenburg, E. V., Stadtarchiv Kulmbach, 1959), 72 (as Hans von Kulmbach).

I. Kühnel-Kunze, "Hans Brosamer und der Meister HB mit dem Greifenkopf," Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft 14-15 (1960-61), 76ff (as Brosamer).

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) 167.

Kurt Löcher, "Zu den Nürnberger Anfängen des Malers Hans Brosamer," reprinted from Mitteilungen des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg (Nürnberg: 2009), briefly discussed 15-16, illus. (b-w) 12, fig. 6 (as by Hans Brosamer).

Sebastian Schmidt, Abbild/Selbstbild: Das Porträt in Nürnberg um 1500 (Wiesbaden: Harassowitz Verlag, 2018), no. 65, illus. (color) 309, fig. 65a, and verso (color) 310 fig. 65b.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, New York World’s Fair, “European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300 to 1800,” May-October, 1939, cat. no. 27.

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