An Unknown Man
attributed to Corneille de Lyon (The Hague 1500/10 – Lyon 1575)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1545 - 1550
Materials
Oil on limewood panel (oval)
Measurements
152 x 127 mm (6 x 5 in)
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Upton House, Warwickshire
NT 446779
Summary
Oil painting on limewood panel (oval), An Unknown Man, attributed to Corneille de Lyon (The Hague 1500/10 – Lyons 1575), 1545-1550. A head-and-shoulders oval portrait of a bearded man, turned slightly to right, wearing a black coat with white collar just perceptible and black cap. Green background. An old inscription on the back of the panel states that the portrait represents Pier Luigi Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, by Holbein. Inscribed - S.......Bernadini (indistinctly).
Provenance
Previous history and date of acquisition by Lord Bearsted unrecorded
Credit line
Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
So......Bernadini (indistinctly)
Makers and roles
attributed to Corneille de Lyon (The Hague 1500/10 – Lyon 1575), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Hans Holbein the younger (Augsburg 1497/8 - London 1543), artist
References
Gore 1964: F. St John Gore, Upton House, The Bearsted Collection: Pictures National Trust, 1964, no. 182, pp. 60-61 Groër, 1996: Anne Dubois de Groër, Corneille de La Haye, dit Corneille de Lyon, Paris, 1996, no.97, pp.190 & 193 & fig.p.192
