CDA ID / Inventory Number | PRIVATE_NONE-P101 |
Persistent Link | https://lucascranach.org/PRIVATE_NONE-P101 |
FR (1978) No. | FR026 |
Portrait of Margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach | [Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003, No. 3] |
Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003, No. 3] |
about 1511 - 1512 | [Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003, No. 3] |
Owner | Private Collection |
Repository | Private Collection |
Location |
Reference on Page | Catalogue Number | Figure/Plate | |
Exhib. Cat. Hamburg 2003 | 25, 167, 170 | 3 | Pl. 3 |
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 | 26 | ||
Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974 | 672, 685-686 | No. 600 | Fig. 326c |
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 | 024 | ||
Swarzenski 1926 | 49 | ||
Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 1925 | 42 | ||
Flechsig 1900 A | 102, 283 | 123 | |
Exhib. Cat. Dresden 1899 | 123 | ||
Frimmel 1894 A | 218 | ||
Hofstede de Groot 1894 | 2-3 | ||
Wyzewa 1891 | |||
That the sitter is Margrave Albrecht – which had to date not been recognized – could be established from the signet ring, the gown of his order and the correlation of the facial features (in particular the squint) with those of the portrait in Heilsbronn (copy after Hans Krell – illustrated in the Zeitschrift für Kunstwissenschaft I, 1932, p. 20). As Albrecht, who was the third born son of Margrave Friedrich the Elder of Ansbach, was appointed Grand Master of the Teutonic Order on the 13. February 1511 the painting cannot have been created before this date. However, the style, which is fresh, and the youth of the sitter argue against a much later date of completion. Cranach portrayed him again in 1528 – as is established below (No. 260) – after Albrecht had already cast-off the gown when in 1525 the order-state was converted to a secular ducy and became Duke of Prussia. – that a long standing relationship between Cranach and the margrave existed is revealed in Albrecht’s letters that were published by A. Hagen in the Jahrbüchern für Kunstwissenschaft VI (1873) p. 118ff. Cranach’s relationship to the Ansbach branch of the Hohenzoller house is further confirmed by a series of portraits of Albrecht’s brothers: Margrave Johann (Fig. 120), Margrave Kasimir of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (Fig. 129) and Georg the Pious (Fig. 263. [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932, No. 24] |