Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg

Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg

Title

Portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg

[Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016, No. 9]

Painting on wood, transferred to canvas

Medium

Painting on wood, transferred to canvas

[Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016, no. 9]

The painting depicts a half-length portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, facing right against a dark background. He is wearing a fur-lined coat over a black doublet and a white shirt buttoned at the neck. He has a red cardinal's hat on his head and a striking signet ring on

The painting depicts a half-length portrait of Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, facing right against a dark background. He is wearing a fur-lined coat over a black doublet and a white shirt buttoned at the neck. He has a red cardinal's hat on his head and a striking signet ring on the index finger of his left hand. The same coat of arms is represented in the top left corner.

[Görres, cda 2017]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016, No. 9]

Production date
1526

Production date

1526

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 40 x 24.5 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 40 x 24.5 cm

  • [Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016, no. 9]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the left: winged serpent with elevated wings and dated '1526'

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the left: winged serpent with elevated wings and dated '1526'

  • [cda 2017]

Inscriptions and Labels

Bottom left in red paint: '1388'
[cda 2017]

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Bottom left in red paint: '1388'

  • [cda 2017]

Owner
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Repository
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Location
St. Petersburg
CDA ID
RU_ESP_GE686
FR (1978) Nr.
FR182A
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/RU_ESP_GE686/

Provenance

  • acquired before 1797
    [Cat. St. Petersburg 1986, 24]

Exhibitions

Bonn 1978
Berlin 1983, no. B72
Halle 2006, no. 89
St. Petersburg 2016, no. 9
Moscow 2016, no. 13

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016 13
EditorThe Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
TitleKranachi: mezdi Renessansom i Man'erizmom / The Cranachs. Between the renaissance and mannerism
Place of PublicationMoscow
Year of Publication2016
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Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016 009
AuthorMaria Pavlovna Garlova
EditorThe State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
TitleKranachi: mezdi Renessansom i Man'erizmom / The Cranachs. Between the renaissance and mannerism
Place of PublicationSt. Petersburg
Year of Publication2016
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Exhib. Cat. Halle 2006 186, 187 089 Pl. p. 186
EditorThomas Schauerte
TitleDer Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg. Renaissancefürst und Mäzen. Bd. 1: Katalog
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication2006
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Cat. St. Petersburg 1986 24
AuthorNikolai Nikulin, Boris Asvarishch
TitleThe Hermitage: German and Austrian Paintings
Place of PublicationLeningrad
Year of Publication1986
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Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1983 133 B72
EditorAltes Museum, Berlin
TitleKunst der Reformationzeit
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1983
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Cat. St. Petersburg 1981 202
Authorn. a.
TitleGosudarstvenny Ermitazh: Zapadnoevropeyskaya zhivopis, Katalog 2: Niderlandy, Flandriya, Belgiya, Gollandiya, Germaniya, Avstriya, Angliya, Daniya, Norvegiya, Finlandiya, Shvetsiya, Vengriya, Polsha, Rumyniya, Chekhoslovakiya
Place of PublicationSt. Petersburg
Year of Publication1981
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 106 182A
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Exhib. Cat. Bonn 1978 30, 31
AuthorGeorg Reinhardt
TitleMeisterwerke deutscher und russischer Malerei aus sowjetischen Museen, [Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, 27 May - 9 July 1978]
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication1978
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Kislych 1973 81-83
AuthorGalina S. Kislych
TitleDie Bilder von Lucas Cranach d. Ä. in den Museen der UdSSR
Publicationin Peter H. Feist, Ernst Ullmann, eds., Lucas Cranach. Künstler und Gesellschaft
Place of PublicationWittenberg
Year of Publication1973
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Libmann 1973 58, 59
AuthorMichail Jakovlevič Libmann
TitleKartiny Lukasa Kranacha Staršego v sovetskich sobranijach
JournalIskusstvo
Issue36/2
Year of Publication1973
Pages57-63
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Cat. St. Petersburg 1958 318
AuthorV. F. Levinson-Lessing, A. E. Krol, U. A. Rusakov
TitleGosudarstvenny Ermitazh: Otdel zapadnoevropeyskogo iskusstva: Katalog zhivopisi. T.II [State Hermitage: Department of Western/European art: Catalogue of paintings. Vol. II]
Place of PublicationSt. Petersburg, Moscow
Year of Publication1958
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 58 154
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
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Cat. St. Petersburg 1916 462
Authorn. a.
TitleImperatorsky Ermitazh: Kratky katalog kartinnoy galerei [Imperial Hermitage: Concise catalogue of the picture gallery]
Place of PublicationSt. Petersburg
Year of Publication1916
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Flechsig 1900 A 266
AuthorEduard Flechsig
TitleCranachstudien
Volume1
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1900
Link page/n5/mode/2up
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Waagen 1864 132
AuthorGustav Friedrich Waagen
TitleDie Gemäldesammlungen in der Kaiserlichen Eremitage zu St. Petersburg nebst Bemerkungen über andere dortige Kunstsammlungen
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication1864
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Support

The painting has been transferred from a wooden support to a canvas one. During the treatment the dimensions were changed.

[Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016, No. 9]

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