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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

[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.

H. W. Grohn, "Faber von Creuznach, Conrad," in Kindlers Malerei Lexikon, vol. 2, (Zürich, [1964-78]), p. 319.

Adrian L[e] H[arivel], Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Ireland, exh. cat. (National Gallery, London, 1985), p. 50 under no. 20, fig. A.

David Oldfield, German Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland: a complete catalogue (Dublin, 1987), pp. 22-23, under no. 21, fig. 10.

Angelica Dülberg, Privatporträts: Geschichte und Ikonologie einer Gattung im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert (Berlin, 1990), p. 193, no. 54, figs. 519, 522.

R[aymond] K[eaveney] in Master Paintings from the National Gallery of Ireland: Mantegna to Goya, exh. cat. (Chicago, The Art Institute, 1992-93), p. 52, under no. 11.

Ownership History

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.