Portrait of a Man

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Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1520/30

Attributed to Martin Schaffner (German, 1477/78–1546/49)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Martin Schaffner
Title: Portrait of a Man
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1515–1535
Medium: Oil on parchment, mounted on panel
Dimensions: 33 × 26.2 cm (13 × 10 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 1947.109
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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.
Manuel Teget-Welz, Martin Schaffner. Leben und Werk eines Ulmer Malers zwischen Spätmittelalter und Renaissance, Ulm, 2008, p. 634, no. 4.

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.).

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 [see Heinemann and Hansen [1928]]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1928 [approved as one of several future gifts from Worcester by the board of trustees of the Art Institute, September 24, 1928]; given to the Art Institute, 1947.

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