Portrait of Fridrich Rorbach by Conrad Faber
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Portrait of Fridrich Rorbach

Conrad Faber · 1532

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Henry Farrer to 1866; sold Christie's, London, June 15-16, 1866, no. 288, as by G. Penz, to Bodley for £14 4s. 6d [according to annotated sale cat. at the Getty Research Institute]; by descent to Miss I. A. Bodley of 28 Marlborough Road, Bournemouth by 1930; her sale Sotheby's London, May 14, 1930, no. 32, as German school, sold to Hugo Perls, Berlin [email of March 31, 2005 from Henrietta Roberti, Sotheby’s; it is possible that Goudstikker was a part owner, since he is mentioned as purchaser in the 1938 Worcester catalogue]. J. Rosenbaum, Frankfurt, 1930 [as per Zülch, 1935]. J. Goudstikker Kunsthandel N. V., Amsterdam, by 1935; bought from Goudstikker by Charles Worcester, Chicago, for the Art Institute, in 1935.

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Literature

Published references

  • [Campbell Dodgson], Exhibition of Early German Art, exh. cat., Burlington Fine Arts Club (London, 1906), p. 88–9, under no. 26.
  • Ernst A. Benkard, "Das Holzhausen-Kabinett im Städel'schen Institut," Kunstchronik n.s. 22 (1911), p. 483.
  • Max J.Friedländer, "Conrad Faber: painter of the patricians of Frankfort in the second quarter of the sixteenth century," Art in America I (1913), p. 147, no. 8.
  • Oswald Götz, "Zwei neue Portraits des Meisters der Holzhausen-Bildnisse," Alt-Frankfurt 5 (1928), pp. 65ff.
  • Tancred Borenius, "Nachrichten, London," Pantheon 5 (1930), pp. 243, 247, ill.
  • C. Geoffrey Holme, ed., Fine Art, Special Spring Number of The Studio (London, 1931), (ill. p. 3).
  • National Gallery of Ireland, Catalogue of Oil Pictures in the General Collection (Dublin, 1932), p. 33, under no. 21.
  • Walter Karl Zülch, Frankfurter Künstler 1223-1700 (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1935), p. 309.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. Worcester Collection (Chicago, 1938), no. 39.
  • Oswald Goetz, "The Portrait of Friedrich Rohrbach by Conrad Faber of Creuznach," Art in America 29 (1941), pp. 89-97, figs. 1,5.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 158-59.
  • Wolfgang Brücker, "Conrad Faber von Creuznach," Schriften des historischen Museums 11 (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1963), pp. 2, 42-45, 48, 50–55, 63–64, 82, 113 n. 98, 134, n. 258, 150, 170-171, no. 16, figs, 17, 67.

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