The reformer is depicted here bare-headed in the attire of a protestant minister, with aged features and grey hair. He has a white collar around his neck, which is strung at the centre and has black-trimming and is over an upright collar. The book held by Luther on the panel
The reformer is depicted here bare-headed in the attire of a protestant minister, with aged features and grey hair. He has a white collar around his neck, which is strung at the centre and has black-trimming and is over an upright collar. The book held by Luther on the panel in Kassel is a reference to the pictorial type from 1532 (Friedländler/Rosenberg 1979, No. 314), but it is held higher than in the earlier portrait. The volume shown is thicker and may in this case be a bible.
[Cat. Kassel 1997, 101]
- Attribution
- Copy after Lucas Cranach the Younger
Attribution
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Younger | [Cat. Kassel 1997, 99] |
- Production date
- about 1565
Production date
about 1565 | [Cat. Kassel 1997, 99] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 24.7/24.8 (left/right) x 18.7/18.8 (bottom/top) x 1 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 24.7/24.8 (left/right) x 18.7/18.8 (bottom/top) x 1 cm
[Cat. Kassel 1997, 99]
- Signature / Dating
None
- Inscriptions and Labels
- in the top left corner:
'D: MARTIN.
LVTHER'
[Cat. Kassel 1997, 99] Recto: - in the bottom left corner:
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- in the top left corner:
'D: MARTIN.
LVTHER'
[Cat. Kassel 1997, 99]
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
Recto: - in the bottom left corner:
barely visible in red paint 'Nr. 499'
Reverse of the panel:
- in black ink: 'Dieses Porträts ist mir von des Herrn Landgrafen Hochfürstl. Durchlaut aus höchst eigener Bewegung gnädigst verehrt worden, und zwar am 26ten Febr. 1781 bey Gelegenheit da Höchstdieselben die Schildereyen aus dem Hauße die Bellevue genannt, wegräumen lassen, um solches für das Künftige Fräulein-Erziehungsinstitut zu widmen, und ich der Ober Camerherr von Wittorf als Director des Stiffts, zugegen war.'
label from the Staatlichen Museen Kassel (20th century)
[Cat. Kassel 1997, 99]
- Owner
- Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
- Repository
- Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Kassel
- Location
- Kassel
- CDA ID
- DE_MHK_GK1024
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_MHK_GK1024/
- in the top left corner: