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Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon
Lost Art-ID
570638
Artist / Creator
Title
Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Panel / painted
Height
51.40 cm
Width
34.90 cm
Description
Half-length figure, nearly en face, head slightly turned to the right, standing behind a parapet, with brown, sparsley hair and short grey-white full beard. over a jerkin, opened at the neck he's wearing a black and furred overcoat, in both hands an open book. An inscription at parapet in Latin: CV of Melanchthon and below two Latin, incomplete verses. Light grey-green background. In right of the center bzw. with snake and 156. Schw. frame. Source: Hugo Helbing Kunsthandlung and Kunstversteigerungshaus: Kunstbesitz eines Berliner Sammlers. Katalog Nr. 49.
Provenance
Collection Jakob Goldschmidt, Berlin, Auction at 23rd June 1936 by auctionhouse Hugo Helbing, Frankfurt am Main. CatalogueNo: 75 (Auktionshaus Hugo Helbing, 1936)
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