id: 124086 accession number: 1944.88 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.88 updated: 2023-08-23 20:25:21.732000 Portrait of Maria Kitscher, Frau von Freyberg, 1545. Hans Mielich (German, 1516–1573). Oil on wood; framed: 81 x 62.5 x 8.5 cm (31 7/8 x 24 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 61.4 x 46 cm (24 3/16 x 18 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.88 title: Portrait of Maria Kitscher, Frau von Freyberg title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1545 creation date earliest: 1545 creation date latest: 1545 current location: 114 Late Northern Renaissance creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection copyright: --- culture: Germany, 16th century technique: oil on wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - German before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hans Mielich (German, 1516–1573) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 81 x 62.5 x 8.5 cm (31 7/8 x 24 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 61.4 x 46 cm (24 3/16 x 18 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed upper left: "M.D. XXXXV. / AETATIS SUAE XXVII. / .H.M." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs opening date: 1982-11-02T05:00:00 Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 2, 1982-March 20, 1983). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 1944: "The Prentiss Bequest," ct. no. 10, pl. VIII (said to have been in the C. Fairfax Murray collection, apparently having been confused with the companion portrait).
CMA, November 2, 1982-March 20, 1983: "Master Goldsmiths of the Renaissance: Their Models and Designs," gallery A, no catalogue. --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss, Cleveland, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Maria von Freyberg was in the court of Albert V, Duke of Bavaria. However, as Lutherans, the family eventually fell from favor as Catholic political interests consolidated power in Bavaria. Mielich’s work for the Munich court included illustrating an inventory of the duchess’s jewelry, seen in the meticulous attention here to the sitter’s brooches, necklaces, and rings. The diamond and ruby ring on her left index finger would have slid apart to reveal a private message or image underneath the gems. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. page number: Reproduced: p. [20], Plate VIII, cat. no. 10; Mentioned: p. 26, cat. no. 10 url: https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n30 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 459 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n84 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 111 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n135 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 111 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n134 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 130 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n150 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 176-178; Reproduced: p. 177 url: Speelberg. Femke. "Fashion and Virtue: Textile Patterns and the print Revolution 1520-1620." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 73, no. 2 (Autumn 2015): 1-48. page number: Mentioned p. 19; Reproduced p. 20, fig. 16 url: Dagit, Gerald, and Hans Mielich. Hans Mielich und die gefräßige Zeit: vergessene Bilder der Münchener Spätrenaissance. Thesis (doctoral)--Universität Regensburg, München : Hirmer, 2022. page number: Reproduced: p. 196, fig. 35 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. page number: Reproduced: p. 49 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.88/1944.88_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.88/1944.88_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.88/1944.88_full.tif