Laïs von Korinth

1654

not on display

Conrad Meyer, artist1618 Zürich – 1689 Zürich

Copy after Hans Holbein the Youngerc. 1497 Augsburg – before 1543 London

We have 12 artworks by Conrad Meyer online. We have 2 artworks by Hans Holbein the Younger online.
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Meyer's free realization of Hans Holbein the Younger's 'Laïs of Corinth', painted in 1526, which came to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel (now the Kunstmuseum Basel) with the Amerbach Cabinet in 1661, enlarges the original, painted in tempera on limewood, to twice the size using an updated technique, whereby some of the enchantingly clear, virtuosically seductive finesse of the Leonardesque-French-influenced original is lost.
The Corinthian courtesan Laïs was equally famous for her beguiling beauty and her boundless greed for money.In: Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft (ed.), edited by Christian Klemm, Franziska Lentzsch, Gian Casper Bott et al., Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007.

Also known as

Lais of Corinth

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

image: 66 x 52 cm

Inventory number

129

Credit line

Kunsthaus Zürich, Keller Collection, 1850

Signature

inscr. b. r.: Conrad Meyer von / Zürich fecit Ao. 1654

Inscriptions

Accession year

1850

Provenance

Conrad Meyer (*1618 Zürich, +1689 Zürich) (Künstler/-in)
Verbleib unbekannt
o.D. – höchstens bis 1829, Johann Caspar Keller zum Mohrenkopf (*1744 Zürich, +1829 Zürich) (Sammler/-in), ZürichKunsthaus Zürich, Sammlungskatalog, 2007, S. 48.
o.D. – 1850, Albert Keller (*1800, +1874) (Sammler/-in), Mailand, ErbeWie oben Fussnote 3.
ab 1850, Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft | Kunsthaus Zürich (Museum), Zürich, KaufZKG/KHZ Inventarbuch Slg.

Literature (provenance)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 48.

About the provenance

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Literature (general)

- Kunsthaus Zürich. Gesamtkatalog der Gemälde und Skulpturen, hrsg. von Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft et al., Sammlungskatalog, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007, S. 48.

Object type

painting

Classification

B 1[1] painting 16th to 18th century CHE

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