Portrait of George Hörmann

1515–1562

Medium	black and colored chalk heightened with white, with wash and watercolor, on white laid paper
Dimensions	Overall: 12 13/16 in. (32.5 cm)
Object Number	1955.1841
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Christoph Amberger, Portrait of George Hörmann, 1515–1562, black and colored chalk heightened with white, with wash and watercolor, on white laid paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1841

Select Bibliography

Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-one: Drawings of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: 1965. Augsburg: Stadt Augsburg. A Changing World-Augsburg between Renaissance and Baroque. June 28-Sept. 28, 1980. Princeton University Art Museum. Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, A Selection from North American Collections. Oct. 3-Nov. 22, 1982; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., Jan. 23-April 11, 1983; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, April 23-June 19, 1983. (Cat. by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann.). 1982. Stuart Preston.. "New York Letter: Late Limelight.:. Apollo.. Oct. 1965.. Kurt Löcher.. Christoph Amberger als Zeichner.. 3:30.. Munch: Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst.. (1979).. Peter G. Bietenholz, ed.. Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Vol. 2.. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.. 1986..

Provenance

Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445);* Colnaghi, London (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1921). *"L." refers to F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes, Amsterdam, 1921 and Supplément, The Hague, 1956.