Hans Roth [reverse]

1527

Bernhard Strigel

Associated Names
Bernhard Strigel

Artist, German, 1460/1461 - 1528

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 35

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Ralph and Mary Booth Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (visible surface): 42.6 x 3 cm (16 3/4 x 1 3/16 in.)
    framed: 49.6 x 37 cm (19 1/2 x 14 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1947.6.4.b

Associated Artworks

This painting shows a person standing in front of a window, turned slightly to the left. The person has fair skin, light blue eyes, and reddish-brown hair that falls just above their ears. Their pink lips are set in a neutral expression. They wear a flat black hat with a wide rim, and a brown fur mantle over a black garment with a tall white ruffled collar. They are holding a round orange fruit in their left hand, with a small gold ring on their pointer finger. The background on the right appears to be a green wall decorated with a faint yellow pattern. On the left is a window or opening that shows a landscape with a blue sky over a rocky mountain with green trees and small houses with red roofs. Below the mountain is a blue river and a brown road with a rider on horseback visible in the distance.

Hans Roth [obverse]

Bernhard Strigel

1527

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably Hans Roth [d. 14 March 1573] and Margarethe Vöhlin [d. 5 July 1582], Memmingen, Augsburg, and Ulm.[1] Manoli Mandelbaum, Berlin; (Julius Böhler, Munich), in January 1922; (Paul Cassirer, Berlin); purchased March 1922 by Ralph Harman [1873-1931] and Mary Batterman [d. 1951] Booth, Grosse Pointe, Michigan;[2] gift 1947 to NGA.
[1] Anton H. Konrad, letter of 5 November 1988 to John Hand, in NGA curatorial files, suggested that the pictures remained in the possession of the Roth family in the Schloss at Reutti (now New-Ulm) until 1890 when bankruptcy forced the dispersal of the collection. Since the Schloss archive is not extant, this proposal remains unverified.
[2] Provenance corroborated by letter of 9 November 1987 from Julius Böhler to John Hand, in NGA curatorial files. See also Böhler inventory card no. 22-149, Getty Research Institute (copy NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1923

  • Ralph H. Booth Loan Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1923, no cat.

1926

  • The Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters. The Detroit Institiute of Arts, (Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition from Detroit Private Collections.), 1926, no. 19.

1927

  • The Fifth Loan Exhibition of Old and Modern Masters, The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1927, no. 26.

1933

  • A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 32a.

1939

  • Masterpieces of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800, New York World's Fair, 1939, no. 363.

2011

  • Dürer-Cranach-Holbein. Die Entdeckung des Menschen: Das deutsche Porträt um 1500, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, 2011-2012, no. 168, repro. (shown only in Munich).

2024

  • Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2024, 40B.

Bibliography

1995

  • Löcher, Kurt. Review of German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries, by John Oliver Hand with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. Kunstchronik 43 no. 1 (January 1995): 19.

Inscriptions

Roth family coat-of-arms center: per pale sable, a unicorn rampant argent, and silver, a fess also s able; crest: a demi-unicorn per fess argent and sable; upper right above coat-of-arms: U.4.

Wikidata ID

Q20175885

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