Map of the Iberian Peninsula

Map of the Iberian Peninsula

BK-17007

Rond tafelstuk met een kaart van het Iberische schiereiland. De kaart is geschilderd op de achterzijde van het dekglas, dat rust op leistenen plaat. Het geheel is gevat in een verguld zilveren montuur, dat aan de buitenzijde is gedecoreerd met een meander en leeuwenkoppen, en wordt gedragen door zes verguld bronzen sfinxen.

• maker: attributed to Augustin Hirschvogel, Neurenberg
• maker: attributed to Wenzel Jamnitzer, Neurenberg

c. 1553

height 12 cm x diameter 61 cm

Public domain

…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, before 1933;{Photo album ‘Het huis van Dr F. Mannheimer, Amsterdam’, 1928-32, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. B-F-1963-426-6.} from whom, fl. 6,350,000, en bloc, to Artistic & General Securities Ltd. as security for a loan from the Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, but kept in usufruct, 1934;{NHA, 476, RMA Archive, inv. no. 2142, Recapitulatie der geïnventariseerde kunstvoorwerpen van wijlen Dr F. Mannheimer, undated, p. 46, no. Zil 17, Artistic no. 12/55; NHA, 233, Arrondissementsrechtbank Amsterdam, inv. no. 1365, “O.R. 256/1939, Faillissementsdossier: nalatenschap Dr. F. Mannheimer, 28 augustus 1939”, image 3, page 2.} purchased from Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• J. van Bennekom en D.J. Biemond, 'A Golden Landscape in an Ultramarine Sea : Research into the "Spanish Map" of 1552-53', The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 60 (2012), nr. 2, p. 100-115.
• S. Bretz, Material Research and Conservation of the Reverse Painted "Spanish Map", uit: The Rijksmuseum Bulletin, 60, 2012, 2, pagina pp. 116-129

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200113563