Hans Holbein the Younger
Benedict von Hertenstein
151752.4 x 38.1 cm
Signed, dated, and inscribed (upper left): DA·ICH·HET·DIE·GE / STALT·WAS·ICH·22· / ·IAR·ALT·1517·H·H· / ·PINGEBAT (When I looked like this I was twenty-two years old, 1517. H.H. painted it)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, aided by subscribers, 1906
Provenance
Hertenstein family, Lucerne
Hauptmann (captain) von Hertsenstein, probably Franz Ludwig von Hertenstein, until 1819, sold as a portrait of Jakob von Hertenstein to Burckhardt-Wildt
Daniel Burckhardt-Wildt, Basel, died 1819
his daughter, Anna Katharina Burckhardt-Werthemann
her daughter, Marie-Charlotte Burckhardt-Werthemann
probably to her daughter, Julie Vischer-Burckhardt, and sold by her husband, Peter Vischer-Burckhardt in the 1850s
Charles Spencer Canning, 10th Earl of Cork and Orrery, Marston, Frome, Somerset, until 1905
sale, Chrstie's, London, 25 November 1905, nr. 50, to Cox
with Colnaghi, London, 1906, sold to MMA
Other works by Hans Holbein the Younger
Allegory of the Old and New Testaments
c. 1535
c. 1535
Portrait of a young man
c. 1520
c. 1520
Johannes Froben
c. 1523
c. 1523
Solothurn Madonna
1522
1522
Dorothea Kannengiesser
1516
1516