Portrait of a young man, half-length, in a green tunic and yellow-lined coat, wearing a black hat

The present panel bears a striking resemblance to a handful of drawn and painted portraits which are today attributed to an anonymous master known as the Master of the Augsburg Portraits of Painters on account of the fact that all known sitters are painters (for further information about this artist and his works, see F. Winkler, Augsburger Malerbildnisse der Dürerseit, Berlin, 1948; see also G. Messling, in Dürer, Cranach, Holbein: Die Entdeckung des Menschen: Das deutsche Porträt um 1500, exhibition catalogue, Vienna and Munich, 2011, pp. 171-174). Among the three paintings that have traditionally been associated with the artist is the Portrait of a man with a ring of 1505 in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (inv. no. 2182). Characteristic are the man’s bushy eyebrows, voluminous hair with large curls and, above all, the freshness with which the artist has observed his sitter.

We are grateful to Dr. Bodo Brinkmann for proposing the attribution following firsthand inspection of the painting and assisting with the cataloguing of this lot.