Portrait of John the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony

Title

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Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

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A bust length portrait of the Elector in a fur-trimmed cloak and a black hat, facing left against a blue background.

Attribution: Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

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Production date: about 1532

Production date

about 1532

[cda 2018]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 18.6 x 14.2 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 18.6 x 14.2 cm
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Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia right edge: serpent (with elevated wings)

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia right edge: serpent (with elevated wings)

Inscriptions and Labels: Lower centre:
'IMMORTALE DVCVM DECVS HAC SVB IMAGINE LUCAS / PINXT IOANNEM SAXONI TERRA TIBI ? / SIC DE …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

Lower centre:
'IMMORTALE DVCVM DECVS HAC SVB IMAGINE LUCAS / PINXT IOANNEM SAXONI TERRA TIBI ? / SIC DE SE MERTO TVLIT HVNC RITESELLVS HONORE / HVIVS ID EXEMPLVM POSTERITATIS ERIT ?'
[http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/searchresults.aspx?searchtype=p; Sale 3055, Old Masters and 19th Century Art, 2015, Lot 15; accessed 24 JAN 2018]

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P190
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P190/

Provenance

(possibly) Paul Mersch, Paris; his sale; Hotel Druôut, Paris, 8 May 1908, lot 24, as Lucas Cranach the Elder
A. Chatain, Chicago, from whom acquired in 1912 by Watson Bradford Dickerman;
by whom bequeathed to his wife Mrs. Watson Bradford Dickerman;
by whom gifted to The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1949, no. 49.231
anonymous sale
Sotheby's, New York, 31 January 2013, lot 253
23 - 24 June 2015 at Christie's, Amsterdam, lot 15
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Exhibitions

New York 1960, No. 1

Portrait of John the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony, about 1532

Images

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