Hans Brosamer

Lot 148: HANS BROSAMER

Name: HANS BROSAMER
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: b47b3abc15

Est: £12,000 GBP - £18,000 GBP

Sotheby'sLondon, United KingdomJuly 07, 2011

Item Overview

Description

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
FULDA (?) CIRCA 1500 - 1554 OR AFTER ERFURT (?)
PORTRAIT OF WOLFF FUERLEGER, AGED 32, THREE-QUARTER LENGTH, WEARING AN EMBROIDERED BLACK COAT
signed with monogram and inscribed along the upper edge: WOLFF FVERLEGER CEVTERFET ANNA . 1527./ AD 15. LVIO SEINES ALTERS . IM. 32. IOR/ HB
oil on panel
45.5 by 32 cm.; 17 7/8 by 12 5/8 in.

Artist or Maker

Hans Brosamer

Literature

I. Kunze, `Der Meister HB mit dem Greikenkopf - ein Beitrag zur Brosamer Forschung', in Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft, vol. 8, Berlin 1941, p. 233, reproduced fig. 25, as by Brosamer.

Provenance

With van Diemen, New York, 1928;
G. Gaspari, Munich, 1928;
Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, probably before 1930 and thence by descent until sold, anonymous sale ("The Property of a Nobleman"), London, Sotheby's, 10 April 2003, lot 16.

Auction Details

Old Master and British Paintings Day Sale

Sotheby's

July 07, 2011, 12:00 PM GMT

34-35 New Bond Street, London, LDN, W1A 2AA, UK

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