This serial production in portrait format is divided horizontally. In the top section is a half-length, posthumous portrait of the aged Elector of Saxony, Friedrich III (1463-1525, Elector since 1486), also known as Friedrich the Wise. A printed eulogy has been attached to the panel in the lower section.
The signed
This serial production in portrait format is divided horizontally. In the top section is a half-length, posthumous portrait of the aged Elector of Saxony, Friedrich III (1463-1525, Elector since 1486), also known as Friedrich the Wise. A printed eulogy has been attached to the panel in the lower section.
The signed portrait complies with the common basic pattern employed for the many portraits of Friedrich III produced by the Cranach workshop: the elector is depicted against a blue background, facing right, he wears a black beret and a fur trimmed coat over a white shirt; the grey tone of his hair and beard indicate the advanced years of the sitter. The text below, which is written in verse acknowledges the particular merits of the regent.
Verso: the electors of Saxony's coat-of-arms printed on paper.
[cda 2020]
- Attribution
- Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
| Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Kunstmuseum Bern, revised 2020] |
- Production date
- 1532
Production date
| 1532 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 19 × 14 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 19 × 14 cm
[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 301, No. 190]
- Signature / Dating
- Artist's insignia centre left edge, above the sitter's shoulder: serpent with elevated wings, facing right
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia centre left edge, above the sitter's shoulder: serpent with elevated wings, facing right
- Inscriptions and Labels
- - top right, printed on paper: 'Friderich der Drit/ Chur- // furst und hertzog zu // Sachssen.' - bottom, printed …
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- - top right, printed on paper:
- 'Friderich der Drit/ Chur- // furst und hertzog zu // Sachssen.'
- - bottom, printed on paper: '[Fridrich bin ich billich genand // Schönen frid ich erhielt im land. // Durch gros vernunfft/gedult und glück //] Widder manchen er[?]bösen tück. // Das land ich zieret mit gebew // Und Stifft ein hohe Schul auffs new, // Zu Wittemberg im Sachssen land // Inn der weit die ward bekand //Denn aus der selb kam Gottes wort // Und thet gros ding an manchem ort. // Das Bepstlich Reich störzt es nidder // Und bracht rechten glauben widder. // Zum Keisar ward erkorn ich // Des mein alter beschweret sich. // Dafur ich Keisar Carl erwelt // Von dem mich nicht wand gonst noch gelt.'
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
- Verso: - lower half:
- handwritten note from 1821 with a stamp
- Owner
- Kunstmuseum Bern
- Repository
- Kunstmuseum Bern
- Location
- Bern
- CDA ID
- CH_KMBe_G0591
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/CH_KMBe_G0591/
