The 50 plates / Plate 3 of 50
Plate 3 of 50
Portrait of a Woman, Probably Sybille von Kleef
Frauenkopf
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Missing since World War II
The drawing
Portrait study of a young woman, possibly Sybille von Kleef. Her face is carefully modeled while the elaborate headdress, jewelry and clothing are more freely indicated.
Becker, 1922
As Felix Becker published it in 1922.
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Title as printed
- Frauenkopf
- Title in English
- Head of a Woman
- Medium and size
- Brush in sepia and opaque color on light-brown paper, 29.3 × 19.6 cm
- Collection in 1922
- Julius Böhler jun., Munich
Today
Modern cataloguing and the drawing’s whereabouts, as far as they are known.
- Status
- Missing since World War II
- Where is it now?
- Missing since World War II. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (D I 221 (PK)) records it among 508 Koenigs drawings sold in 1940 to Hans Posse for Hitler’s planned Linz museum.
- Attribution today
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Title today
- Portrait of a Woman, Probably Sybille von Kleef
- Date
- c. 1530–1540
- Medium
- Brush in sepia and opaque color on light-brown paper
- Provenance
- F. Koenigs Collection, Haarlem (D.I. 221); sold in autumn 1940 by D.G. van Beuningen to Hans Posse for Linz, a transaction the museum describes as violating Dutch law and international agreements.
The sheet in this copy
Sources
- Felix Becker, Handzeichnungen alter Meister in Privatsammlungen (Leipzig, 1922), plate 3.
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen — official collection recordhttps://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/180552/drawing