Young Man with a Beard
oil on canvas
55 x 46 cm
circa 1817
signed verso Marie Ellenrieder pinx
ex coll. Dr. Klaus Durm, Karlsruhe
Conserved by the late Andrea Rothe (formerly, Senior Conservator of Paintings, Getty Museum) and Jeanne McKee-Rothe (formerly, Norton Simon Museum).
Literature:
Friedhelm Wilhelm Fischer, Marie Ellenrieder, Leben und Werk der Konstanzer Malerin (Konstanz and Stuttgart: Jan Thorbecke, 1963), Kat. Nr. 88 (entitled Niederblickender bärtiger Mann).
The same model appears in a oil painting of St. Jerome, c. 1817, in the collection of the Wessenberg-Galerie, Konstanz (Fischer Kat. Nr. 347, Abb. 10), reproduced below.
