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This painting shows a man standing, his body and head slightly turned to the right. He has fair skin, arched eyebrows, round green eyes, a long nose, thin pink lips, a long brown beard, and a thin brown mustache. He wears a black flat-topped cap and a dark robe with puffed sleeves and lacy white details around the cuffs and neck. A gold ring with a green stone is on his left forefinger. He stands next to a wide window with a yellow sill, and in the background there is a landscape with dark green trees, green fields, a rustic house, and a faint person standing next to a horse, all under a blue sky.
National Gallery of Art · Painting
A Member of the Fröschl Family
Hans Mielich
- Date
- c. 1539/1540
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- overall: 64.2 x 47 cm (25 1/4 x 18 1/2 in.) framed: 84.8 x 68.3 x 6.4 cm (33 3/8 x 26 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Classification
- Painting
- Accession number
- 1984.66.1
- Credit line
- Gift of David Edward Finley and Margaret Eustis Finley
- Time span
- 1501 to 1550
- Department
- CNE-R
Subjects and terms
- painted surface
- German
- male
- portrait
- Renaissance
- German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries
- Froschl family member
Provenance
John Rushout, 2nd baron Northwick [1769-1859], Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, possibly by the early nineteenth century;[1] (Thirlestane House sale conducted by Phillips, 26 July - 30 August 1859, no. 134, as by Amberger). Alfred Morrison [1821- 1897], London and Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire, by 1887;[2] by inheritance to his son, Hugh Morrison [d. 1931], Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire and Islay House, Argyll; by inheritance to his son, John Granville Morrison, 1st baron Margadale, Fonthill House and Islay House; (sale, Christie's, London, 18 April 1980, no. 87). (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., New York, owned jointly with Artemis/David Carritt Limited, London), by 1983; purchased November 1984 by NGA. [1] Timothy Bathurst, who knows the Northwick Collection well, suggested that the paintings were acquired early in the century; see his letter of 30 January 1989 to NGA curator John Hand, in NGA curatorial files. The first published reference found by John Hand is the 1859 auction catalogue. [2] The date of 28 December 1887 occurs on a paper label on the reverse of the panel.
Inscription
center reverse coat-of-arms: (gules, a powert sejant-erect); lower center reverse: E.G.V.[?]Z.
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