LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on panel
Measurements:
37.76 in. (95.90 cm.) (height) by 31.26 in. (79.40 cm.) (width)
Markings:
dated upper right: MDXLI (1541)
Exhibited:
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A decade of collecting, 1965-1975, April 8-June 29, 1975, no. 57.
Literature:
Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum, Annual Report, 1967-1968, vol. XVIII, Nr. 3,4 (1969), pp.9-11; H.J. Seldis, "Top Museum Acquisitions Span Styles, Centuries", in Los Angeles Times, January 19, 1969, p. 44, reproduced; A decade of collecting, 1965-1975, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles 1975, pp. 171-2, cat. no. 57, reproduced; M. Young, "A Decade of Collecting. Los Angeles County Museum of Art", in Apollo, 101, 1975, p. 220, reproduced p. 222, plateVII; K. Donahue, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Handbook, Los Angeles 1977, p. 68, reproduced; K. Löcher, "Christoph Amberger", in Welt im Umbruch. Augsburg zwischen Renaissance und Barock, exhibition catalogue, Augsburg 1981, p, 145, reproduced, p. 146; S. Schaefer, et al., European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, Los Angeles 1987, p. 12, reproduced; K. Löcher, "Amberger, Christoph", in Künstler-Lexikon, vol. III, 1992, p. 123; Katalog Munchen, 2000, p. 181, reproduced, p. 182; A. Kranz, Christoph Amberger: Bildnismaler zu Augsburg, Bonn 2000, pp. 307-11, cat. no. 30, reproduced in color, plate 72; N. Bulst and T. Lüttenberg, "Andreas Priever: Abbild oder Wunschbild? Bildnisse Christoph Ambergers im Spannungsfeld von Rechtsnorm und gesellschaftlichem Anspruch", in Saeculum, 53/I, 2002, p. 65.
Provenance:
In the collection of the Princes Fugger, Babenhausen; Probably in the collection of the Liechtenstein family, Castle Friedau, Österreich; Graf von Trautmannsdorf, Castle Friedau, Österreich; Gräfin Isbary, Vienna, circa 1927; Thence by descent to her daughter, Princess Windischgrätz, until 1968; With Frederick Mont Inc., New York, 1968; Gift of the Michael J. Connell Foundation to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1968 (acc. no. M.68.33).