The_Hanseatic_merchant_Cyriacus_Kale,_by_Hans_Holbein.jpg
Size of this preview:
420 × 600 pixels
.
Other resolutions:
168 × 240 pixels
|
336 × 480 pixels
|
538 × 768 pixels
|
717 × 1,024 pixels
|
1,434 × 2,048 pixels
|
3,262 × 4,657 pixels
.
Summary
Hans Holbein the Younger : Portrait of Cyriacus Kale | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artist |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre | portrait | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description |
Portrait of the Hanseatic merchant, Cyriakus Kale.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date | 1533 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on oak panel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 59.8 cm (23.5 in)
; width: 44.1 cm (17.3 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,+59.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+44.1U174728
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q678082
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
GG 18
(
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum
)
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
Motto and age in gold:
IN ALS GEDOLTIG // SIS ALTERS · 32
[Patient in all things · 32]
Year in gold:
ANNO // · 1533 ·
[The Year 1533]
Dem Ersame(n) syriacus / Kalen yn Lu(n)den up Stulhof / sy desse breff Deme Ersammenn F(u)rssichtig Kallen te lunde(n) (up) Staelhuef sy desse ...
on the letters in his hands |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes |
Cyriakus Kale is not documented as a merchant of the
Steelyard
(
Stahlhof
) in London, but the letters he is holding are addressed to him there.
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References | https://www.bildindex.de/document/obj00010957 ( German ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions |
|
Licensing
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional,
public domain
work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "
faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain
".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. |