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Johann von Aich (1510–1549)

Barthel Bruyn, the Elder (German, 1493–1555)
about 1540

Medium/Technique Oil on panel
Dimensions 33.3 × 24.2 cm (13 1/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
Framed: 41.9 × 33 cm (16 1/2 × 13 in.)
Credit Line Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow Fund
Accession Number66.11
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

ProvenanceBy 1873, Schloss Roland Fahne, Düsseldorf. Martin Heckscher, Vienna (?). By 1909, Oscar Huldschinsky (b. 1848 - d. 1931), Berlin [see note 1]; May 10, 1928, Huldschinsky sale, Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Berlin, lot 44, to Siegfried Kramarsky (d. 1961), Amsterdam and New York [see note 2]; by 1965, sold by Kramarsky or his heirs to Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York; 1966, sold by Rosenberg and Stiebel to the MFA. (Accession date: January 12, 1966)

NOTES:
[1] See W. Bode, "Die Sammlung Oscar Huldschinsky," Frankfurt, 1909, p. 37. [2] Sigfried Kramarsky was a Jewish financier who served as the Amsterdam Director of the German Bank Lisser-Rosencrantz; he fled to Lisbon in 1939 before moving to New York with his family in January 1940. According to a letter from Saemy Rosenberg of Rosenberg and Stiebel to Thomas N. Maytham of the MFA (January 17, 1966; in MFA curatorial file), this picture and its companion (MFA 66.12) "were bought by the late Mr. Siegfried Kramarsky at the Huldinschky sale and have been in his family ever since."