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Portrait of a Young Artist
German · c. 1500
Provenance
Ownership history
- Hilmer Åberg, Sweden until 1928 [according to a letter of September 17, 1982, from Johan Norden, Bukowski-Auktioner, to Ilse Hecht in curatorial files]; sold Bukowski, Stockholm, September 13, 1928, no. 32, to Ball [according to letter cited above]; Max Ball, Berlin, and Z.M. Hackenbroch, Frankfurt, until at least 1930 [according to letter cited above; they lent it jointly to Cologne1930; since no owner is listed in Munich 1931, it was probably still on the market at that time]. Paul Tiocca, Paris, by 1936 [see Fraenger 1936; in a letter dated February 4, 1939 to Charles Worcester, Tiocca stated that the painting had been in his possession for many years]; sold to E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, 1937 [according to an article in the Chicago Tribune, May 5, 1937]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1937 [invoice dated April 16, 1937, in curatorial files]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Cologne, Kölnischen Kunstverein, Meisterwerke älterer Kunst aus deutschem Kunsthandel, 1930, no. 63, as South German.
- Munich, Galerie Fleischmann, Das Bildnis in der deutschen Renaissance, 1931, no. 34, as South German.
- Bruges, Groeningemuseum, From Van Eyck to Dürer: Artistic Exchanges between the Netherlands and Central, Eastern and Northern Europe, c. 1420-1530, October 28, 2010 - January 30, 2011, cat. 163.
Literature
Published references
- A. K. Zülch, "Selbstbildnis M. N.," Pantheon 3 (1929), pp. 222–24, ill.
- H. H. Naumann, Das Grünewald-Problem und das neuentdeckte Selbstbildnis des 20 jährigen Mathis Nithart aus dem Jahre 1475, Jena, 1930, pp. 19–35, color ill. opp. title page.
- H. Feurstein, Matthias Grünewald, Bonn, 1930, pp. 21–23, 27, 146, fig. 1.
- F.-G. Pariset, “Autour de Grünewald. Le Livre de Hans Heinrich Naumann,” Archives Alsaciennes 9 (1930), pp. 72–100, figs. 4–6.
- K. Steinbart, Review of Feurstein, Matthias Grünewald in Der Kunstwanderer 30 (1930), p. 96.
- A. Behne, Review of Naumann, Das Grünewald-Problem und das neuentdeckte Selbstbildnis des 20 jährigen Mathis Nithart aus dem Jahre 1475 in Creative Art 7 (1930), p. 235.
- L. Strauss-Ernst, “Köln. Meisterwerke alter Kunst aus deutschem Kunsthandel,” Kunstchronik und kunstliteratur, supplement to Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 64 (1930), p. 22.
- C. Jatho, “Die Kölner Grünewalds,” Der Cicerone 22 (1930), p. 415.
- W. R. Deusch, “Notes from Berlin,” The Antiquarian 7, no 2 (1931), p. 56, ill. p. 42.
- F.-G. Pariset, “Autour de Grünewald,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6e pér., 6 (1931), pp. 262–263, fig. 1.
- H. Nachod, Review of Naumann, Das Grünewald-Problem und das neuentdeckte Selbstbildnis des 20 jährigen Mathis Nithart aus dem Jahre 1475 and Feurstein, Matthias Grünewald in Kunstchronik und Kunstliteratur, supplement to Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 65 (1931), p. 98.
- H. H. Naumann, “The Problem of Meister Mathis,” Burlington Magazine 64 (1934), pp. 203–213.
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