id: 145960
accession number: 1971.166
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.166
updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:28.630000
Terminus, the Device of Erasmus, c. 1532. Hans Holbein the Younger (German, active England and Switzerland, 1497/98–1543). Oil on wood; framed: 32.4 x 32.4 x 4.5 cm (12 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.); unframed: 21.6 x 21.6 cm (8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee in memory of Milton S. Fox 1971.166
title: Terminus, the Device of Erasmus
title in original language:
series:
series in original language:
creation date: c. 1532
creation date earliest: 1527
creation date latest: 1537
current location: 114 Late Northern Renaissance
creditline: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee in memory of Milton S. Fox
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 Holbein the Younger (German, active England and Switzerland, 1497/98–1543) - artist
---
measurements: Framed: 32.4 x 32.4 x 4.5 cm (12 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.); Unframed: 21.6 x 21.6 cm (8 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.)
state of the work:
edition of the work:
support materials:
inscriptions:
inscription: Inscribed in the middle: "CONCEDO NVLLI. [lower right: TERMI / NVS"
translation:
remark:
---
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1971
opening date: 1971-12-28T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1971. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1971-February 6, 1972).
title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual
opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00
Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
title: Erasmus in Spain: Humanism in Spanish early Renaissance
opening date: 2002-09-25T00:00:00
Erasmus in Spain: Humanism in Spanish early Renaissance. Universidad de Salamanca, Escuelas Menores, Salamanca, Spain (September 25, 2002-January 6, 2003).
title: Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance
opening date: 2021-10-19T04:00:00
Holbein: Capturing Character in the Renaissance. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (October 18, 2021-January 9, 2022) https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/holbein/index.html; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (February 11-May 15, 2022) https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/holbein.
---
LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
---
PROVENANCE
Charlotte Frank (London, England)
date:
footnotes:
citations:
Dr. and Mrs. Sherman Lee, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1971.
date: -1971
footnotes:
citations:
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1971-
footnotes:
citations:
---
fun fact:
digital description:
wall description:
---
RELATED WORKS
---
CITATIONS
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: Reproduced: p. 170; Mentioned: p. 169-172
url:
Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1971.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 1 (1972).
page number: no. 52A, p. 42
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152412
Holbein, Hans, and Hans Werner Grohn. L'opera pittorica completa di Holbein il giovane. Milano: Rizzoli, 1971.
page number:
url:
Rowlands, John. "Terminus, the Device of Erasmus of Rotterdam: A Painting by Holbein." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 2 (1980): 50-54.
page number: Reproduced: p. 51; Mentioned: p. 50-54
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25159663
Fredericksen, B. B. (1982). E cosi desio me mena. The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, 10.
page number: p. 30
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4166458
Rowlands, John, and Hans Holbein. Holbein: The Paintings of Hans Holbein the Younger. Oxford: Phaidon, 1985.
page number: p. 136, cat. no. 35, repr. pl. 67
url:
Jensma, Goffe. Erasmus, de actualiteit van zijn denken. Zutphen: De Walburg Pers, 1986.
page number: p. 176
url:
Holbein, Hans, and Hans Werner Grohn. Tout l'œuvre peint de Holbein le jeune. Paris: Flammarion, 1987.
page number: fig. 66, p. 99.
url:
Bätschmann, Oskar, and Pascal Griener. Hans Holbein. London: Reaktion Books, 1997.
page number: fig. 215, p. 157
url:
Klinger, D. M., Ambrosius Holbein, Hans Holbein, and Antje Höttler. Die Malerbrüder Ambrosius und Hans d.J. Holbein: Werkverzeichnis, Gemälde und Miniaturen. Cheb: H.B. Wilson, 1998.
page number: cat. no. 35, p. 149
url:
Martínez-Burgos García, Palma, and Bart Fransen. Erasmo en España: la recepción del humanismo en el primer Renacimiento español : Escuelas Menores de la Universidad de Salamanca, 26 de septiembre de 2002-6 de enero de 2003. Madrid: Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior, 2002.
page number: p. 202
url:
Coelen, Peter van der, and Marjolijn Bol. Images of Erasmus. Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 2008.
page number: p. 69, fig. 14
url:
Bätschmann, Oskar and Pascal Griener. Hans Holbein. London: Reaktion Books, 2014.
page number: Reproduced: p. 230, fig. 228
url:
---
IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.166/1971.166_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.166/1971.166_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.166/1971.166_full.tif