Portrait of Margarethe Rott, nee Vöhlin. Bernhard Strigel
1527
oil on panel
circa 43 × 30 cm (16.9 × 11.8 in)
National Gallery of Art
Gallery 35A
Accession number 1947.6.5.a
Object history Probably Hans Roth [d. 14 March 1573] and Margarethe Vöhlin [d. 5 July 1582], Memmingen, Augsburg, and Ulm. Manoli Mandelbaum, Berlin; (Julius Böhler, Munich), in January 1922; (Paul Cassirer, Berlin); purchased March 1922 by Ralph Harman [1873-1931] and Mary Batterman [d. 1951] Booth, Grosse Pointe, Michigan; gift 1947 to NGA.
Credit line Ralph and Mary Booth Collection
Inscriptions across bottom edge of engaged frame: Tausen und funfhundert iar Auch siben undzwaintzge das is war / Zallt man, do hett ich zwaintzg iar wol . Am tag Margrethe ich dagen sol (One thousand and five hundred years, with seven and twenty, that is true as men count, then was I full twenty years old on St. Margaret's day, so I should say.)
References National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Image by NGL
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