Portrait of Erard de la Marck

Portrait of Erard de la Marck

Erard de la Marck (1472-1538). Prins-bisschop van Luik

SK-A-4069

Erard de la Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liège, had a reputation as a ruthless inquisitor (opponent of heresy), but also as a great patron of the arts and a protagonist of the modern Renaissance style in the northern and southern Netherlands.

Abigail Bagley-Young, 'Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen's 'Cardinal Erard de la Marck' and 'Holy Family': a diptych reunited', The Burlington Magazine 150 (2008), p. 76-82.

painter: Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (possibly)

c. 1528 - c. 1530

olieverf op paneel

height 64.4 cm x width 55.5 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt, the State of the Netherlands and the Stichting tot de Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum

purchase 1962

Public domain

...; ? estate inventory, Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1480-1530), 1524-30 (`Ung tableau, paint d´ung cousté d´une Nostre-Dame et de l´autre du cardinal de Liège, fermant à deux fuilletz.´);{Transcribed by Kreyczi, no. 2979 in Zimerman/Kreyczi 1885, p. CXXI, no. 958.} ...; Frau Ph. von Abegg, Wiesbaden, as Jan van Scorel, by 1904;{Cohen 1910, pp. 221-22.} …; collection A. de Hevesy (?), Paris;{Note Friedländer on photo RKD, no. 28144.} …; Richard von Kaufmann, Berlin, no. 115;{Label on the reverse of the painting.} …; the dealer P. Cassirer, Berlin, 1925;{Note Friedländer on photo RKD, no. 28144.} …; collection Catalina von Pannwitz (1876-1959), de Hartekamp, Heemstede and later South America, as Jan van Scorel, November 1925;{Coll. cat. Von Pannwitz 1926, p. 6, no. 29, pl. XX.} from whom, through the dealer S. Rosenberg, New York, $ 45.000 (fl. 163,053), to the museum, with support from the Vereniging Rembrandt and the Fotocommissie, 1962

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.

Abigail Bagley-Young, 'Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen's 'Cardinal Erard de la Marck' and 'Holy Family': a diptych reunited', The Burlington Magazine 150 (2008), p. 76-82.

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