Portrait of Melanchthon in a black cloak against a blue background. The bare-headed figure is in three-quarter profile and facing to the left.
[Görres, cda 2012]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Younger
Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Younger | [Exhib. Cat. Bremen 2009, No. 18] |
- Production date
- 1551
Production date
1551 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 25.6 x 20.3 x 0.5 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 25.6 x 20.3 x 0.5 cm
[Exhib. Cat. Bremen 2009, No. 18]
Maße mit Rahmen: 40.7 x 35.8 x 3.3 cm
[Petra Klier, Hamburg, Inventarblatt vom 27.9.92, Werkakte]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the right, above the sitter's shoulder: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing left and dated '1551'; in black paint
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the right, above the sitter's shoulder: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing left and dated '1551'; in black paint
[Görres, cda 2012]
- Inscriptions and Labels
Reverse of the panel: - 3rd box (of the cradle) from the top and the 2nd from the left:
Inscriptions and Labels
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
Reverse of the panel: - 3rd box (of the cradle) from the top and the 2nd from the left:
inscription in black felttip pen 'LR 62'
On the cradle:
- top horizontal member:
in black felttip pen 'LR 62'
,- 2nd vertical member from the left, bottom:
paper label in white: 'Inv.Nr. 62'
- right vertical member, bottom:
round paper label printed in black: 'Roselius = Haus Bremen'
small white discoloured paper label, printed in black: '1496' crossed-out with a black felttip pen
[Angelica Hoffmeister-zur Nedden, Conservation Report, March 2009, Documentation file]
- Owner
- Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Stadtgemeinde
- Repository
- Kunstsammlungen Boettcherstraße, Bremen
- Location
- Bremen
- CDA ID
- DE_KBSB_B62
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_KBSB_B62/