Workshop of Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (Beverwijk c. 1500-c. 1559 Brussels), Portrait of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503-1564), bust-length

Workshop of Jan Cornelisz. Vermeyen (Beverwijk c. 1500-c. 1559 Brussels)
Portrait of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1503-1564), bust-length
oil on panel
19 ½ x 14 in. (49.5 x 35.5 cm.)

Provenance
Stefan von Auspitz collection, Vienna. with K.W. Bachstitz, The Hague, by 1931, as ‘Barend van Orley’.
Anonymous sale; Charpentier, Paris, 27 March 1952, lot 19.
Tudor Wilkinson collection; Hôtel Drouot, Aderet Picard, Paris, 3 July 1969, lot 86.
with Ehrich Galleries, New York.
with Grassi, Florence.

Literature
W. Hilger, Ikonographie Kaiser Ferdinands I. (1503-1564), Vienna, 1969, pp. 47-49, 145-146, no. 8, as ‘Jan Vermeyen’.
M. J. Friedländer, Early Netherlandish Painting, XII, Leyden and Brussels, 1975, p. 89, under 'Supplement to Jan C. Vermeyen', as 'The best [portrait] of...Ferdinand known to me, done about 1530 and possibly by Vermeyen'.
G. Heinz and K. Schutz, Portraitgalerie zur Geschichte Österreichs von 1400 bis 1800, Vienna, 1976, pp. 66-7, under no. 26.
H.J. Horn, Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen: Painter of Charles V and his Conquest of Tunis-Paintings, Etchings, Drawings, Cartoons & Tapestries, Doornspijk, 1989, II, p. 489, no. A15, illustrated, as 'Shop of Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, circa 1530'.