Engelbert II van Nassau Master of the Portraits of Princes

Engelbert II van Nassau Master of the Portraits of Princes

SK-A-3140

• date, top frame: ‘1487’
• inscription, bottom of the frame: ‘Engelbert Conte de Nassau’

Engelbert, Count of Nassau, was one of the most prominent nobles of the Duchy of Burgundy. That he belonged to the upper echelons is evident from the prestigious chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece around his neck and the gyrfalcon on his hand. Hunting with this bird of prey was an exclusive pastime and largely restricted to the high nobility.

K. Posner en Robert van Langh [red.], Supporting Conservation : Four projects funded by Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds, Amsterdam 2015, p. 54, afb. 37.

painter: Meester van de Vorstenportretten, Southern Netherlands

c. 1480 - c. 1490

olieverf op paneel

height 33.5 cm x width 24 cm

Gift of H.W.C. Tietje, Amsterdam

gift 1933-07

Public domain

...; ? estate inventory, palace of the Nassau family, Brussels, 1618, no. 31 (`Le pourtraict de Messire Engelbert de Nassau, peint à huile, sur bois´);{Transcribed in Pinchart 1864, p. 276, no. 31.} …; Hollingworth Magniac (1786-1867), Colworth House, Bedfordshire, known as the Colworth collection, 1862;{Charles Robinson, Notice of the principal works of art in the collection of Hollingworth Magniac, Esq., of Colworth, unpublished 1862; see the catalogue for his sale, London, Christie´s, 2 July 1892 sqq.} his sale, 2 July 1892 sqq., no. 77, as unknown Flemish master, dated 1497, 120 gns, to the dealer Durlacher;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Wickham Flower, Guildford and London, 1899;{London 1899, p. 11, no. 47.} his deceased sale, et al., London (Christie´s), 17 December 1904, no. 46, 270 gns, to the dealer Dowdeswell;{Copy Sotheby´s London.} …; collection Berthold Richter, Berlin, 1906;{Berlin 1906, p. 28, no. 93.} ...; sale, Rudolf Peltzer (†) (Cologne) et al., Amsterdam (F. Muller), 26 May 1914 sqq., no. 329, as Anonymous, 15th century, fl. 7,000;{Copy RKD.} …; collection Michiel Onnes van Nijenrode (1878-1972), Kasteel Nijenrode, Breukelen;{Information from the collector.} his sale, Amsterdam (F. Muller), 4 July 1933 sqq., no. 4, fl. 5,200, to the dealer J. Goudstikker, for the museum, as a gift from Dr Hans Wilhelm Christian Tietje (1895-?), Amsterdam, 1933{Copy RKD.}

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• K. Posner en Robert van Langh [red.], Supporting Conservation : Four projects funded by Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds, Amsterdam 2015, p. 54, afb. 37.
• Documentatiemap Schilderijen: aantekeningen R. van Luttervelt (voor 1963).

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