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Portrait of a Young Man

The Latin inscription states that the subject of the portrait is 25 years old. It also compares the artist, Baldung, with Apelles, the greatest painter of Greek antiquity, because both created portraits of unsurpassed realism.

The Latin inscription states that the subject of the portrait is 25 years old. It also compares the artist, Baldung, with Apelles, the greatest painter of Greek antiquity, because both created portraits of unsurpassed realism.

Artist:
Hans Baldung, gen. Grien (1484/85 Schwäbisch Gmünd - 1545 Straßburg) DNB

Time:
1515

Object Name
Painting

Culture
German

Material/technology:
Limewood

Dimensions:
einschließlich zweier beiderseits angesetzter bemalter Leisten: Overall: 63,8 cm × 47,5 cm × 2,3 cm
Framed: 76,5 cm × 60,5 cm × 5,5 cm

Signed
Inscribed with the monogram on the upper right; below the inscription: 1515

Inscribed
oben die Inschrift in Distichen: TALIS. ERAM. LVSTRIS. OLIM. QVASI. QVINQVE. PERACTIS. / ARTE. VELVT. MAGNA. PICTA. TABELLA. TENET / SIC. ME. BALDVNGVS. DEPINXERAT. ALTER. APELLES / VT. VIVVM. QVI. ME. VIDERIT. ESSE. PVTET.

Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie

Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 864

Provenance
1783 documented in the gallery

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