About This Artwork

Martin Schaffner, attributed to
German, 1477/78 - 1546/49

Portrait of a Man, 1520/30

Oil on parchment, mounted on panel
13 x 10 3/8 in. (33 x 26.2 cm)
Painted surface: 13 x 10 1/8 in. (33 x 25.7 cm)
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1947.109

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Kleinberger, Loan Exhibition of German Primitives for the Benefit of the American Red Cross, 1928, no. 20.

AIC, Loan Exhibition of Old Masters, 1928–29 (no cat.).

Publication History

Galerie Heinemann and Galerie Hansen A.G., Alte und moderne Meister, Munich, [1928], n.pag. (ill.).

Frank E. Washburn Freund, “Ausstellung altdeutscher Malerei in den F. Kleinberger Galleries zu New York,” Belvedere 8 (1929), p. 285.

Charles L. Kuhn, A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1936, p. 65, no. 272, pl. 55.

Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Chicago, 1938, p. 44, no. 41.

Suzanne Lustenberger, Martin Schaffner, Maler zu Ulm, Schriften des Ulmer Museums, n.s. 2, Ulm, 1959, p. 224, no. 7.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, 1961, p. 412.

Martha Wolff in Martha Wolff et al., Northern European and Spanish Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2008, pp. 408-11, ill.

Ownership History

Bachstitz Gallery, Berlin [Heinemann reported that he acquired the painting from Bachstitz, statement of Nov. 27, 1928; translation in Art Institute Archives]; Galerie Heinemann, Munich, by 1928;6 sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928 [see Heinemann and Hansen [1928]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.