Life-size portrait without hands in side view to the right. The Pope has laid a chimney over his shoulders and is wearing a cap on the back of his head. [...] Inscribed in the upper left: F. Lenbach Rome 1885. [...] Acquired 1907 in Berlin.
source: Carl von Bertrab (Bearb.): Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der Gemälde in der Sammlung Rudolf von Goldschmidt Rothschild. Frankfurt a.M. 1912.
Provenance
purchased in Berlin, 1907; collection Rudolf von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt a.M./Königstein i.T. 1907 - 1912 - [...]; confiscation by national socialists can not be excluded; whereabouts unknown
