Lot 170
Attributed to the Master of the Mass of Saint Gregory (German, active c. 1523-1548)
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, in a black hat, a white shirt with a gold-trimmed lace collar and a fur-lined mantle, a draped green curtain behind
Closed9 December 2009
Price Realised
GBP 32,450
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Specialist note
This portrait appears to identifiable with the panel recorded by Friedländer and Rosenberg (op. cit., 1932 and 1978), which is more extended in format, showing the sitter's crossed hands.
The attribution was first put forward by Friedländer, on the basis of stylistic comparison with the portrait-like heads in two panels depicting The Mass of Pope Gregory, commissioned by Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg for the Collegiate Church in Halle: 'where we find the same chubby bodies, the rigid posture of the heads and even such conspicuously exaggerated details as window bars reflected in the pupils of the eyes' (op. cit., 1978).
The attribution was first put forward by Friedländer, on the basis of stylistic comparison with the portrait-like heads in two panels depicting The Mass of Pope Gregory, commissioned by Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg for the Collegiate Church in Halle: 'where we find the same chubby bodies, the rigid posture of the heads and even such conspicuously exaggerated details as window bars reflected in the pupils of the eyes' (op. cit., 1978).