Half-length portrait depicting the sitter in three-quarter profile, facing right against a dark brownish green background. He wears a black academic robe and a beret.
[Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, revised 2011]
- Attribution
- Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
| Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, revised 2011] |
- Production date
- about 1600 - 1900?
Production date
| about 1600 - 1900? | [Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, revised 2011] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 48.8 x 34.4 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 48.8 x 34.4 cm
[Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, revised 2011]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia top right: winged serpent
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia top right: winged serpent
[not genuine, cda 2011]
- Inscriptions and Labels
- top right:
'D.MARTIN.LVTHER'; in black paint Reverse of the panel: - top right:
printed label with the coat-of-arms (Baselstab) …Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- top right:
'D.MARTIN.LVTHER'; in black paint
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
Reverse of the panel: - top right:
printed label with the coat-of-arms (Baselstab) and 'KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL [printed], 1943 Nr. 1236 (Bachofensammlung 1920) Schule des Lukas Cranach Bildnis des Martin Luther. [handwritten]'
- bottom right:
address label, torn: '...rrn [in pencil] Prof. Bachof...'
- top centre:
in red chalk 'A'
- half way up the panel:
in blue chalk 'A 94'
[Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, revised 2011]
- Owner
- Prof. J.J. Bachofen-Burckhardt-Stiftung
- Repository
- Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel
- Location
- Basel
- CDA ID
- CH_KMB_1236
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/CH_KMB_1236/
- top right:
