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Along with the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (The Met 14.40.633), the Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World) is one of two exceptional paintings by Albrecht Dürer in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum
American Art News 20 (December 3, 1921), p. 1, ill. p. 6. Pierre du Colombier.
For over a century scholars have considered whether or not this sympathetic portrait of an old man is a self-portrait by El Greco. Lafond (1906) described the seemingly Romantic notion as at best a plausible hypothesis, and a number of more recent scholars (for example, Wethey 1962) have rejected the idea, mainly on the basis of comparisons with presumed self-portraits inserted by El Greco into several of his major religious pictures (see also Christiansen 2003)
Madrid, 1924, p. 122, ill. opp. p. 122, as a self-portrait.
Like a good number of works formerly attributed to Rembrandt, this large canvas was included in catalogues of the artist’s work through Bauch’s corpus of 1966 and then rejected by Gerson (1968, 1969). In 1923, however, Van Dyke, no doubt responding to the frequent suggestion of Frans Hals’s influence on the painting, assigned it to that master or to the „Hals School
Stuttgart, 1906, p. 397, ill. p. 145. Adolf Rosenberg.
Lucerne: Verlag Räber & Cie, 1964. no. 28, p. 16.
Leipzig, 1902, pp. 14–17, 22, 38 n. 2, p. 39 n. 3, ill. opp. p. 8.
From the Passion of Christ window, choir of the castle chapel (the Schlosskapelle) at Ebreichsdorf, south of Vienna.; Lolowrat-Liebsteinsky, Ebreichsdorf (1843-73) ; Count Joseph Arco-Zinneberg, Ebreichsdorf (1873-1922) ; [ Duveen Brothers, London, Paris and New York] ; Mrs
Berlin: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1913. p. 199.
Abrams, 1952. no. 55, p. 222. Rorimer, James J.
Said to be from Chaian, Eupatoria district, Crimea, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) (Shcheglov and Katz 1991) In the 1880s, found in the village of Chaian, Eupatoria district, Crimea, by a local peasant; 1880s-90s, said to have been acquired by Islam-Ali, the father of a certain Abdulla-Islam-Ali-Oglu, purchased from a local peasant; with Islam-Ali, Eupatoria district, Crimea; 1914, offered for sale to the Russian Archaeological Institute in Istanbul by an anonymous dealer; [before 1918, acquired by Schepsel Gokhman (Hochmann), probably purchased from an anonymous dealer]; [with Schepsel Gokhman (Hochmann), Odessa (later Berlin); [before 1927, acquired by Kurt W
Bulletin of the Bachstitz Gallery. p. 36. Richter, Gisela M. A. 1931.
Danel, 1889. p. 43, no. 151 (possibly this shield).
From the high altar of the Cistercian abbey, Lichtenthal, near Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg; Dutch or German Private Collection ; [ Sotheby’s, London (July 28, 1939, no. 103) ] ; [ John Hunt, Ireland (1939–sold 1952)]
Oud Holland 52 (1935). p. 29. Huth, Hans.
