Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, called the Peaceful

Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, called the Peaceful

Title

Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, called the Peaceful

[cda 2018]

Painting on beech wood

Medium

Painting on beech wood

[Cat. Coburg 2018, 158]

Bust-length portrait of Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg (1479-1552), called the Peaceful, against a blue background, facing to the right.

Attribution
Meister I.S.

Attribution

Meister I.S.

[Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, revised 2018] [Cat. Coburg 2018, 158]

Production date
about 1560

Production date

about 1560

[Teget-Welz 2018, 211, 215] [Cat. Coburg 2018, 158]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 49.8 x 36.5 x 0.7 cm (Original panel)/ 2 cm (including horizontal battens)

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 49.8 x 36.5 x 0.7 cm (Original panel)/ 2 cm (including horizontal battens)

  • [Cat. Coburg 2018, 158]

Signature / Dating

Monogram at the left edge above the sitter's shoulder: 'IS' (linked)

Signature / Dating

  • Monogram at the left edge above the sitter's shoulder: 'IS' (linked)

  • [Cat. Coburg 2018, 158]

Inscriptions and Labels
  • top right: 'HENRICVS DUX MEGALOPIRG'
    [Cat. Coburg 2018, 158] Reverse of the panel:
    label HKA; handwritten in red: …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • top right:

  • 'HENRICVS DUX MEGALOPIRG'

  • [Cat. Coburg 2018, 158]

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel: label HKA; handwritten in red: 'Jost Stettner/ Frank./ 1661'

  • [Cat. Coburg 2018, 158]

Owner
Veste Coburg Kunstsammlungen
Repository
Veste Coburg Kunstsammlungen
Location
Coburg
CDA ID
DE_KSVC_M025
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_KSVC_M025/

Provenance

  • this painting is one of a series originally from Gotha and belonged to the original art cabinet established by Duke Ernst the Pious, the patriarch of the Ernestine Saxony-Gotha family line and ordered that Friedenstein castle be built
  • an inventory from 1638 lists the paintings in the lower salon of the residency in Weimar
  • 1644 listed in the 'Taffelstuben' of the 'Gothaer Kaufhaus'
  • 1656 listed in the earliest surviving inventory from Friedenstein castle 'Inventarium über die Kunst Cammer'
  • removed from Friedenstein castle sometime between 1856 and 1876; the painting was last recorded in Gotha in Georg Rathgeber's 'Beschreibung der Herzoglichen Gemälde-Gallerie zu Gotha [...]' [1835] as part of a series then consisting of 27 portraits
    [Teget-Welz 2018, 210, 211]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Cat. Coburg 2018 158, 159 30 Pl. p. 159
AuthorKlaus Weschenfelder
TitleCranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication2018
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Teget-Welz 2018 209-228 Fig. 32
AuthorManuel Teget-Welz
TitleVon Gotha in die Ganze Welt. Die Fürstenserie des Monogrammisten IS
Publicationin Klaus Weschenfelder, ed., Cranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication2018
Pages209-228
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Weschenfelder 2018 A 14, 18
AuthorKlaus Weschenfelder
TitleCranach in Coburg.
Publicationin Klaus Weschenfelder, ed., Cranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication2018
Pages7-23
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Rathgeber 1835 191 f. 027
AuthorGeorg Rathgeber
TitleBeschreibung der Herzoglichen Gemälde-Galerie zu Gotha
Place of PublicationGotha
Year of Publication1835
Link https://dhb.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/ufb_cbu_00011801
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Research History / Discussion

A series of portraits depicting noble men by the monogrammist IS. These paintings were without doubt originally conceived as a series. This theory is supported by various visual clues, including their similar dimensions and uniform backgrounds. In addition all the sitters are shown as half-length figures in three quarter profile with their hands positioned in front of their bodies. Six of the portraits are signed with the monogram IS. The series was probably created about 1560.

[Teget-Welz 2018, 209]

  • Henry V, Duke of Mecklenburg, called the Peaceful, about 1560

Images

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Documents

Technical studies

2018Technical Examination

Support

- beech wood

- two vertically aligned and butt-joined planks. Plank I: 18.1 cm; plank II: 18.4 cm. The planks are also joined at the top and bottom with dovetails. The right edge of the support is sloped the remaining edges are grooved. The planks were smoothed with a plane. There are remnants of bark at the bottom right. the wood is from the outer layer, socalled sapwood. Two horizontal battens (each 3.5 cm in width) were glued to the reverse. there are traces of the chalk ground along the edge.

Ground and Imprimatura

- chalk ground

Condition Reports

Date2018

Support:

  • two horizontal battens (each 3.5 cm in width) were glued to the reverse.

Paint layers:

  • the surface exhibits a very fine craquelé and is very abraded (old cleaning campaign).

  • numerous small retouches in the flesh paint and on the right hand side of the painting; exitholes have been filled and retouched

  • abrasioin along the edges caused by the frame

Varnish:

  • an old, but not original varnish was removed from the areas of flesh paint.

[Cat. Coburg 2018, 158]

Conservation History

Date1959

Restored and cradled.

[Cat. Coburg 2018, 158]

  • conservation treatment by Josef Wuttke

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

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