The sitter's identity is confirmed by a full-length portrait painting for which this work served as a preparitory sketch. It is one of a series of portraits of the electoral-saxon family created in 1564. Accordingly the sitter is 12 years of age. Later in 1570 she married the reformed count
The sitter's identity is confirmed by a full-length portrait painting for which this work served as a preparitory sketch. It is one of a series of portraits of the electoral-saxon family created in 1564. Accordingly the sitter is 12 years of age. Later in 1570 she married the reformed count palatine Johann Casimir and suffered greatly under him because of her lutheran beliefs.
[Gero Seelig, Cat. Berlin 1994, 137f.]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Younger
Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Younger | [Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, revised 2017] |
- Production date
- about 1564
Production date
about 1564 | [Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, revised 2017] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of painted surface: 38.8 x 28.5 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of painted surface: 38.8 x 28.5 cm
[Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, revised 2017]
- Signature / Dating
None
- Owner
- Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz
- Repository
- Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz
- Location
- Berlin
- CDA ID
- DE_SMBKSK_KdZ4452
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SMBKSK_KdZ4452/