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View at the museum ↗Portrait of Fridrich Rorbach
Conrad Faber1532
- Attribution
- Conrad Faber von Creuznach (German, c. 1500–by 1553)
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Physical dimensions
- 50.4 × 35.7 cm (19 7/8 × 14 1/16 in.); Framed: 68.3 × 53.5 cm (26 7/8 × 21 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
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This portrait would have served as a document of a marriage. Friedrich Rorbach’s name, age, and coat of arms, along with the date, are painted on the back of the panel, which was originally paired with a portrait of his wife, Katherina Knoblauchin, now in the National Gallery of Ireland. The two portraits share the same background— a fanciful mountain landscape. Conrad Faber, who worked in Frankfurt-am-Main, specialized in portraits depicting the patrician elite of that prosperous city. In the early 16th century, the energy and self-confidence of the many courts and free cities loosely united in the Holy Roman Empire brought about an artistic flowering in Germany.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0