A Jester Artist: Marx Reichlich (Austrian, active ca. 1485–1520)

ca. 1519–20

European Art

On view, 2nd floor, European Art
Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

44.5 × 33.7 cm (17 1/2 × 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Bequest of Dr. Herbert and Monika Schaefer

Accession Number

2020.37.6

Culture

Austrian

Period

16th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Collection Weber, Hamburg. Collection Knut Tillberg (1860–1940), Stockholm. Collection Osborn Kling (1874–1953), Stockholm; [sale, Pictures by Old Masters: The Property of Herr Osborn Kling of Stockholm, Christie’s, London, June 28, 1935, lot 10 (unsold) [see note 1]]; possibly sold to ‘Leafe’ [see note 2]. Dr. Heinrich Becker, Dortmund, by 1967; with G. Cramer Oude Kunst (Hans M. Cramer), The Hague; Dr. Herbert (1910–2011) and Mrs. Monika (died 2019) Schaefer, Malaga, Spain, by 1977; on loan to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1981–2019; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. 2019

Notes:

[1] According to the Christie’s, London, Sale Archives, lot 10 in the Kling Sale went unsold: the reserve, which is hand-written in the annotated copy of the sale was £750, the bidding only got up to 270 guineas; the painting was subsequently returned to Herr Kling of Stockholm.

[2] According to an annotated photo-mount of the catalogue entry for the painting from the 1935 auction found at the Witt Photoarchives, London, the painting was bought by ‘Leafe.’ The Yale Art Gallery has not been able to confirm this information nor resolve the discrepancy with the painting having been returned to Herr Kling. The identify of ‘Leafe’ is similarly unknown, but research remains ongoing.

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Bibliography
  • "The Family of Sir Thomas More: Holbein's Cucianic Portrait," Art Bulletin (2003).
  • Joachim Pissarro, Saints, Sinners, and Scenery: European Genre and Landscape Paintings from the Collection of Herbert and Monika Schaefer, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1998), 9.
  • Collection: Dr. Herbert & Monika Schaefer, Selected Works, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Mountain View Press, 1998), 24–27, no. 6, ill.
  • Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Over wilden en narren boeren en bedelaars: beeld van de andere, vertoog over het zelf (Antwerp: Dr. Paul Vandenbroeck, 1987), 48, 207, pl. II and cover.
  • Go¨rel Cavalli-Bjo¨rkman, The Laughing Jester, 9 (Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1985), 104–106, ill.
  • Rolf Firtz, Sammlung Becker I: Gemälde Alter Meister, 1 (Dortmund, Germany: Unknown, 1967), pl. 7.
  • Erich Egg, "Marx Reichlich. Der Meister des Angrererbildnisses," Zeitschrift fur Kunstwissenschaft 14 (1960): no. 12.
  • Hans Vollmer, Meister des Angreer-Bildnisses, 37 (Leipzig, Germany: E. A. Seemann, 1950), no. 18.
  • Karl Oettinger, Altdeutsche Maler der Ostmark (Vienna: A. Schroll, 1942), 28, pl. 52.
  • Karl Oettinger, "Zur Herkunft des Angrermeisters," Pantheon 17 (1936): 186–87, 191, ill.
  • Max J. Friedländer, "Das Bildnis eines Narren von dem Meister des Angerer-Portrats," Pantheon 10 (1932): 232–33, ill.
  • Max J. Friedländer, "Der Meister des Angerer-Bildnisses," Cicerone 1 (1929): 1–6.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

figures (representations)

Subject

jesters

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