Portrait of Count Palatine Philipp of the Rhein, Bishop of Naumburg and Bishop of Freising (1480-1541)

Attribution

Production date

Dimensions

• Dimensions of support: 51.4 x 37.4 x 0.5 cm

• Dimensions including frame: 61.5 x 48 x 2.5 cm

• [Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, revised 2011]

Signature / Dating

• Artist's insignia centre, left: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1528'

• [cda 2011]

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

• Reverse of the panel: - top, centre:

• paper label with a boarder, written by Johann Caspar Lavater, feather in brown ink: 'Lieblichlaunige Treue, wer liebt dich nicht, wenn er Dich anschaut / von Lucas Cranach / 9.1.1787 L.'

• • top, left:

• paper label 'Gemäldegalerie Dessau / Werkstatt-Tagebuch Nr.[stamp, printed] 537 [handwritten with a feather in brown-black ink]'

• • below:

• paper label, not legible

• • bottom, centre:

• brush in black '34' (?) (crossed-out)

• • bottom, left:

• brush in black '1472'

• • beside this:

• paper label: 'Cranach, Lukas / 12 Brustbild des Pfalzgrafen Philipp bei Rhein / Jest 1472 6V 392 [handwritten in blue ink]'

• Reverse of the frame:

• • top, right:

• paper label: 'Gemäldegalerie Dessau / Werkstatt-Tagebuch Nr.[stamp, printed] 537 [handwritten with a feather in brown-black ink]'

• • beside this:

• paper label, in pencil: 'C. 13'

• • bottom, right:

• paper label 'Staatliche Galerie Dessau / Gesamtverzeichnis / Nr.[printed] 392 [handwritten in pencil]'

• [Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, revised 2011]