A half-length portrait depicting the sitter in half profile, facing right against a light blue background. His hands are folded in front of his stomach.
Reverse:
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black
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two coats-of-arms executed on paper are glued onto the reverse
[Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, revised 2011]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder (and workshop)
Attribution
| Lucas Cranach the Elder (and workshop) | [Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, revised 2011] |
- Production date
- 1533
Production date
| 1533 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 20.6 x 14.5 x 0.3 cm (original)
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 20.6 x 14.5 x 0.3 cm (original)
[Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, revised 2011]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia left at the height of the sitter's ear: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1533'; in black paint
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia left at the height of the sitter's ear: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1533'; in black paint
- Inscriptions and Labels
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embroidered motto on the sitter's shirt collar (in white paint): 'ALS * IN * EREN/ BEN *ALS *IN * …
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- embroidered motto on the sitter's shirt collar (in white paint): 'ALS * IN * EREN/ BEN *ALS *IN * ER...'
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
Reverse of the panel: - top:
a piece of paper, attached with glue, with a handwritten text in brown ink 'Portrait de Jean Friedric Electeur de Saxe grand Protecteur des Protestants du Temps de la Reformation. peint par Luc Müller de Cranach qui vivait allors à la Cour de Dresde & qui lorsque le dit Electeur fut fait prisonnier par l'Empereur Charles, le suivit en Prison'...
- centre:
combined coat of arms of Johann Friedrich und Sibylle of Kleve, painted on paper and attached with glue
- bottom:
a piece of paper, attached with glue, with a handwritten text in brown ink. Continuation of the text above: ...'& l'y servit pour luy prouver son attachement pendant 5 an Siehe Conversations Lexicon T.5. pag. 216 & Tucher Mahler Lexicon pag. 365.'
On the frame:
printed label with the coat-of-arms (Baselstab) and 'KUNSTMUSEUM BASEL [printed], 1943 Nr. 1228 (Bachofensammlung 1920) Lukas Cranach d. Ae. Friedrich d. Grossmütige Kurfürst v. Sachsen. [handwritten]'
[Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, revised 2011]
- Owner
- Prof. J.J. Bachofen-Burckhardt-Stiftung
- Repository
- Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel
- Location
- Basel
- CDA ID
- CH_KMB_1228
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR336A
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/CH_KMB_1228/
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