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The Emperor Maximilian I (1459 - 1519)

Bernhard Strigel (Memmingen 1460 – Memmingen 1528)

Category

Art / Oil paintings

Date

c. 1508

Materials

Oil on panel

Measurements

394 x 302 mm (115 1/2 x 11 7/8 in)

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Collection

Upton House, Warwickshire

NT 446803

Summary

Oil painting on lime or poplar panel, The Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) by Bernhard Strigel (1460-1528), circa 1508. A head-and-shoulders portrait, facing half right, seated before a window, within a room hung with green brocade. The sitter wears a crimson velvet hat and crimson cloak with brown lapels edged with green over an orange tunic embroidered in black, and the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece. With hands held across the chest and holding in one hand a folded paper inscribed in German with part of a petition: '[…] Ich armer dienstmann bitt von meiner [?erjagten] Frau wegen von euer Rat und helfft als'. With an old inscription on reverse: 'Inscrizione trova...antica cornice nei Davanti. Maximilianus Rex Romanorum.'

Provenance

Mrs E.M. Renshaw sale, Sotheby’s, 16 December 1942, lot 89, as by Strigel; bought by the Arcade Gallery, from which it was acquired by Lord Bearsted in October 1943, for £1,200; given with Upton House to the National Trust by Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882 – 1948) shortly before his death in 1948.

Credit line

Upton House, The Bearsted Collection (National Trust)

Marks and inscriptions

Verso: Inscrizione trova...antica cornice nei Davanti. Maximilianus Rex Romanorum

Makers and roles

Bernhard Strigel (Memmingen 1460 – Memmingen 1528), artist

Exhibition history

New Light on Old Masters, Squash Court Gallery, 2013

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