Portrait of Margaret of Austria

Drawing on paper

Medium

Drawing on paper
black and red chalk, brush in black and blue

[Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz 2026]

Study of Margaret, Governor of the Netherlands, facing right, against a blue background.

Attributions

Copyist after Lucas Cranach the Elder	[German, copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz 2026]
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Workshop or circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder, Messling, Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010, 140, no. 64]
Bernart van Orley	[Bock, Rosenberg, Cat. Berlin 1930, 46]
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Workshop or circle of Lucas Cranach, Messling, Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010, 140, no. 64]

Dating: about 1508
about 1520

Dating

about 1508	[Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz 2026]
about 1520	[Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010, 140, no. 64]

Dimensions: Sheet: 234 x 176 mm

Dimensions

Sheet: 234 x 176 mm
[Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz 2026]

Signature / Dating: none

Labels: On the reverse (hidden by the lining), written in brown ink: 'Fraw Margretta' (the name is illegible)

Labels

later inscription, stamps, seals, labels:

On the reverse (hidden by the lining), written in brown ink: 'Fraw Margretta' (the name is illegible)

Owner: Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Repository: Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Location: Berlin

CDA ID: DE_SMBKSK_KdZ6829
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SMBKSK_KdZ6829/

Provenance

- acquired in 1835 with the Nagler collection
[Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz 2026]

Exhibitions

Mechelen 1958, no. 196
Brussels 2010, no. 64

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Messling 2014

Author	Guido Messling
Title	Cranach in den Niederlanden
Publication	in Wolfgang Augustyn, Ulrich Söding, eds., Dialog - Transfer - Konflikt: künstlerische Wechselbeziehungen im Mittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit, [Ergebnis einer internationalen Tagung im Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, München, 04 - 06.10.2012]
Place of Publication	Passau
Year of Publication	2014
Pages	365-384

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Research History / Discussion

The watermark on the present sheet - a crown with internal half-arches - suggests a german draughtsman because a similar if not identical mark was identified on paper in circulation about 1519 in Coburg.

[Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010, no. 64, 140]

Portrait of Margaret of Austria, about 1508

Images

Technical studies

2017Technical Examination

Watermark

watermark: present

watermark, motiv: crown

[Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, revised 2017]

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