A half-length portrait of Philipp Melanchthon depicted against a blue backround facing to the left with his arms folded.
On the reverse of the panel strips of paper bearing a Latin text are attached to both the top and the bottom. A laurel wreath with a red coat-of-arms in the
A half-length portrait of Philipp Melanchthon depicted against a blue backround facing to the left with his arms folded.
On the reverse of the panel strips of paper bearing a Latin text are attached to both the top and the bottom. A laurel wreath with a red coat-of-arms in the centre was painted in the middle of the panel on a dark ground. The coat-of-arms depicts a golden snake wound around the cross.
[Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Unsinn 2010]
- Attributions
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Hans Cranach
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attributions
| Hans Cranach | Hans Cranach (?) [Heydenreich 2015, 123] |
| Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Gemäldegalerie, revised 2010] |
- Production date
- 1532
Production date
| 1532 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 19.8 x 14.2 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 19.8 x 14.2 cm
Dimensions of the painted surface: 19.3 x 13.6 cm
[Gemäldegalerie, revised 2010]
- Signature / Dating
Above the sitter's proper right shoulder: dated '1532'
Signature / Dating
Above the sitter's proper right shoulder: dated '1532'
- Inscriptions and Labels
Reverse of the panel: - top and bottom:
broad strip of paper with a handwritten Latin text[Gemäldegalerie, revised …
Inscriptions and Labels
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
Reverse of the panel: - top and bottom:
broad strip of paper with a handwritten Latin text
[Gemäldegalerie, revised 2010]
- Owner
- Union Evangelischer Kirchen (UEK)
- Repository
- Evangelisches Predigerseminar, Wittenberg
- Location
- Wittenberg
- CDA ID
- DE_UEK-smbGG_Dep27
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR314-315C
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_UEK-smbGG_Dep27/
