The painting shows a bird's eye view of a landscape with a river in the foreground, which bends to flow into the middle distance on the left side of the image. In the background there is a town and to the right a castle complex. In the centre of the
The painting shows a bird's eye view of a landscape with a river in the foreground, which bends to flow into the middle distance on the left side of the image. In the background there is a town and to the right a castle complex. In the centre of the foreground is the Elector Friedrich the Wise, further to the right is the Emperor Maximilian I. and on the far right Elector Johann the Steadfast.
As neither the Elector Friedrich nor the Emperor Maximilian I. were still alive in 1529 it must be interpreted as a visual mementos commissioned by Johann the Steadfast to recall a hunt, which may have taken place in 1497 when both the Saxon princes were guests at Maximilian I.'s court in Innsbruck.
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
| Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011] |
- Production date
- 1529
Production date
| 1529 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 80.2 (l) 80 (r) x 114.1 (t) 113.9 (b) cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 80.2 (l) 80 (r) x 114.1 (t) 113.9 (b) cm
(thinned and cradled)
Dimensions of the painted surface : 80.2 (l) 80 (r) x 114.1 (t) 113.9 (b) cm
Dimensions including frame: 103.6 x 137.9 x 7.5 cm
[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the trunk of the tree in the centre oft he foreground: winged serpent with elevated wings, dated '1529'; in yellow paint
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia on the trunk of the tree in the centre oft he foreground: winged serpent with elevated wings, dated '1529'; in yellow paint
[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]
- Inscriptions and Labels
Reverse of the panel/cradle: - on the vertical batten, top centre:
red coloured pencil: '14 (?)'- on the vertical batten, …
Inscriptions and Labels
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
Reverse of the panel/cradle: - on the vertical batten, top centre:
red coloured pencil: '14 (?)'
- on the vertical batten, bottom centre:
rectangular paper label, printed: 'Dépôt Niederl.', added in blue pen: 'Prag Inventar 38. Hirschfang L. Cranach 746.'
- below:
colouring pencil: 'P. 38'
- on the reverse of the panel, bottom right:
Inventory label: 'Gemälde-Galerie des Allerh. Kaiserhauses No. 3560'
- on the horizontal batten, bottom right:
Inventory stamp: 'GJ 1949'
[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]
- Owner
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
- Repository
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
- Location
- Vienna
- CDA ID
- AT_KHM_GG3560
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR281
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/AT_KHM_GG3560/
- on the vertical batten, …
