File:Derich Berck, by Hans Holbein.jpg
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Summary
Hans Holbein the Younger: Derick Berck of Cologne
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painting ![]() |
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Genre |
portrait ![]() |
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Description |
English: Portrait of Derick Berck, one of the Hanseatic merchants whom Holbein portrayed during his second stay in England. |
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Date |
1536 ![]() |
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Medium |
oil on canvas ![]() |
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Dimensions |
height: 53.3 cm (20.9 in) ![]() ![]() dimensions QS:P2048,+53.3U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+42.5U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236
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Accession number |
49.7.29 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) ![]() |
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Credit line | The Jules Bache Collection, 1949 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
Name of sitter and motto bottom left: Dem Ersamē u(n)d fromen Derik Berck to(?) Luden upt. Stahlhof // besad dz end
[To the honorable and pious Derick Berck, London, at the Steelyard [. . .]. // Think of the end (his motto)]letter in his left hand bottom left: (Forsan et haec) olim meminisse juvabit
[Perhaps someday we will rejoice to recall even this. (Virgil, Aeneid, I, line 203.)]on the cartellino Year and age of sitter bottom right: AN° 1536 ÆTA: 30 ·
[In the Year 1536 at the Age of 30]on the table |
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Notes |
English: The bearded, thirty-year-old sitter is identified by the letter in his left hand: Derick Berck from Cologne, a merchant of the Steelyard (Stahlhof) in London.
According to Holbein's biographer Derek Wilson: "The striking similarity with Titian's Gentleman in Blue (1511) has often been commented on and Holbein must have based his composition on that of the Venetian master". (Wilson, p. 184.)
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Source/Photographer | Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (accession number 49.7.29) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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