Martin Luther, bust-length, facing right

Attributions

Production date

Dimensions

• Dimensions of support: 39.5 - 39.6 x 22.6 - 22.9 x 0.4 - 0.5 cm (bevelled to 4 - 5 mm at the edges)

• [KKL 2022]

• Dimensions including frame: 47.7 x 31.1 x 3.2 cm

• [Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, revised 2011]

Signature / Dating

• Dated on the right, next to the sitter's cheek: '1529'

• [KKL 2022]

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

• • top: 'D. M. L.'

• [KKL 2022]

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

• Reverse of the panel: - top left:

• paper label 'Gemäldegalerie Dessau / Werkstatt-Tagebuch Nr. [printed stamp] 380 [handwritten with a feather in brown]'

• • top half of the panel, centre:

• red pen 'Jst 1589'

• • below, left:

• red pen '1589'

• • in the centre:

• white chalk, numbers '1(?) 2(?) 1(?) 0(?)'

• • lower half of the panel, centre:

• brush in black '40'

• • below:

• red pen '87'

• • bottom right:

• paper label with inscription, handwritten in blue ink 'Cranach, Lukas / 440 Bildnis Martin Luther / Jst 1589, GV 236a'

• Reverse of the frame:

• • bottom left:

• paper label "Staatliche Galerie Dessau / Gesamtverzeichnis / Nr. [printed] 236a [handwritten, pencil]

• [Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, revised 2011]