A knee-length portrait of Prince Joachim II of Brandenburg (1505-1571) in armour with a battleaxe subtley executed in great detail. The young man faces left and wears a large red beret with a plume. A small amount of his pleated, gold embroidered shirt pokes out of the collar of the
A knee-length portrait of Prince Joachim II of Brandenburg (1505-1571) in armour with a battleaxe subtley executed in great detail. The young man faces left and wears a large red beret with a plume. A small amount of his pleated, gold embroidered shirt pokes out of the collar of the armour and beneath it a gold chain with a cross-shaped pendant set with rubies and pearls is visible. The chain is wrapped numerous times around the sitter's neck. The chest and shoulders are richly decorated with gold gilding. He wears a dagger tucked into his belt and a fine delicate chainmail is visible between the plates of armour at the armholes and the codpiece [...]
The original painting by Lucas Cranach was in the Gotisches Haus until 1918 and has been in Schloss Grunewald, Berlin since 1958.
[Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16544; accessed 7 April 2015]
- Attribution
- Heinrich Olivier (Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder)
Attribution
Heinrich Olivier (Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder) | [Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16544; accessed 7 April 2015] |
- Production date
- 1824
Production date
1824 | [Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16544; accessed 7 April 2015] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 66.5 x 48.6 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 66.5 x 48.6 cm
[Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16544; accessed 7 April 2015]
- Signature / Dating
None
- Inscriptions and Labels
- on the black background above the sitter's head and framed by gothic tracery: 'IOACHIMVS DEI GRATIA / MARCHIO BRANDEN/BVRGENSIS …
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- on the black background above the sitter's head and framed by gothic tracery:
'IOACHIMVS DEI GRATIA / MARCHIO BRANDEN/BVRGENSIS // AETATIS EIVS SEDECI / MOANO VERO SA/LVTIS 1520.'
[Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16544; accessed 7 April 2015]
- Owner
- Bundesland Sachsen-Anhalt
- Repository
- Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz, Gotisches Haus (The Gothic House)
- Location
- Wörlitz
- CDA ID
- DE_SA-KsDW_M02-2002
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SA-KsDW_M02-2002/
- on the black background above the sitter's head and framed by gothic tracery: 'IOACHIMVS DEI GRATIA / MARCHIO BRANDEN/BVRGENSIS …