The painting depicts a half-length portrait of a man against a plain background. His sumptuous dark coat has decorative buttoned slits on the sleeves, revealing his undergarment with its elaborate brocade pattern. He is wearing a dark beret and has a small horizontal beard along his chin line. He has
The painting depicts a half-length portrait of a man against a plain background. His sumptuous dark coat has decorative buttoned slits on the sleeves, revealing his undergarment with its elaborate brocade pattern. He is wearing a dark beret and has a small horizontal beard along his chin line. He has a signet ring on the index finger of his left hand. The sitter is facing to the right and the direction of his gaze is also to the right. While his voluminous coat fills the pictorial space to the edge on the right, the artist has retained the space on the left hand side. This has created a compositional imbalance, which is compounded by the fact that the sitter has been shifted to the right of the central axis.
[Daniel Görres, cda 2018]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 416] |
- Production date
- 1538
Production date
1538 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 49.7 x 35.3 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 49.7 x 35.3 cm
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 416]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia at the bottom left: serpent with dropped wings, facing right
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia at the bottom left: serpent with dropped wings, facing right
[cda 2018]
- Inscriptions and Labels
- top left:
'ANNODO: M.D.XXXVIII
AETATI SVAEXXXV'
[cda 2018]
- top left:
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- top left:
'ANNODO: M.D.XXXVIII
AETATI SVAEXXXV'
[cda 2018]
- Owner
- Private Collection
- Repository
- Private Collection
- CDA ID
- PRIVATE_NONE-P213
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR416
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P213/