Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as the Cologne councillor Johan van Ryndorp (1505–1551/2)

Painting

Oil/panel

32 5/8 x 22 1/2 in 83 x 57 cm

Estimate: € 200,000 $ 210,736 £ 172,736 ￥ 1,536,728 ETH

133.0137 ₿ 7.6279 ₪ (ILS) 833,265 KR (SEK) 2,318,481 CHF 191,368 $ CA 287,092 - € 300,000 $ 316,104 £ 259,104 ￥ 2,305,092 ETH

199.5205 ₿ 11.4419 ₪ (ILS) 1,249,897 KR (SEK) 3,477,721 CHF 287,053 $ CA 430,638 (€ 200,000 - € 300,000 )

Alte Meister

25 oct 2023

Dorotheum

Dorotheergasse, 17
1010 Vienna
Austria

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Details

Inscr. "Vniversa,Vanitas Preter Amare De Vm" lower left

Notes: Westhoff-Krummacher pp. 151–52, cat. no. 76, illustrated p. 152 (as Barthel Bruyn der Ältere)

Provenance: Collection of Anton Joseph Essingh (1787–1864), Cologne; his sale, J. M. Heberle, Cologne, 18 September 1865, lot 57 (as Hans Holbein); Collection of Franz Merkens (1823–1905) and Maria Katharina Merkens, née Essingh (1827–1905); by descent to Walter Merkens (1867–1929), Bad Honnef until 1926; with Paul Cassirer, Berlin (no. 5107), 22 October 1926 until 14 June 1935; sale, Paul Graupe, Berlin, 27 May 1935, lot 59 (as Bruyn, auctioned as Besitz Bankh. D.- Sch. = Delbrück und Schickler, Berlin by order of Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer); Collection of Heinrich Neuerburg (1883–1956), Cologne; sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 15 November 1972, lot 34; Private collection, Northern Germany

Exhibition: Munich, Galerie Fleischmann, Das Bildnis in der deutschen Renaissance, 1931, cat. no. 9 (as Bartholomäus [Barthel] Bruyn der Jüngere); Cologne, Kunsthaus Lempertz in cooperation with the Wallraf–Richartz–Museum, Barthel Bruyn 1493-1555. Gesamtverzeichnis seiner Bildnisse und Altarwerke. Gedächtnisausstellung aus Anlass seines vierhundertsten Todesjahres, June – August 1955, cat. no. 66 (as Barthel Bruyn)

Illustrated on page 55 of the catalog

portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as the cologne councillor johan van ryndorp (1505(1551 2)

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