Philipp Melanchthon

Philipp Melanchthon

Title

Philipp Melanchthon

[Angermuseum, revised 2012]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2012]

Half-length portrait of aged Melanchthon in three-quarter profile, facing left, bare-headed and wearing a black cloak.

[Görres, cda 2015]

Attribution
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Angermuseum, revised 2012]

Production date
about 1600

Production date

about 1600

[Angermuseum, revised 2012]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 42.9 x 33.5 x 0.5-0.7 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 42.9 x 33.5 x 0.5-0.7 cm

  • Dimensions including frame: 51.5 x 42.8 x 3.5 cm

  • [cda 2012]

Inscriptions and Labels

Reverse of the panel: - top left:
in red paint: 'MA 160'

Reverse of the frame:

  • top left:
    in red paint: …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel: - top left:

  • in red paint: 'MA 160'

  • Reverse of the frame:

    • top left:

  • in red paint: 'MA 160'

    • right batten:

  • in pencil: 'rechts'

Owner
Angermuseum, Erfurt
Repository
Angermuseum, Erfurt
Location
Erfurt
CDA ID
DE_AME_MA160
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_AME_MA160/
  • Philipp Melanchthon, about 1600

Images

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Technical studies

03. 2012Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • Infrared reflectography
  • irr

Underdrawing

- an undedrawing is not readily visible

[Smith, Sandner, Heydenreich, cda 2013]

  • photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich
  • photographed by Ingo Sandner

2012Technical Examination

  • reverse

Support

- wood

- a single plank

- bevelled on all four sides on the reverse

- reverse smoothed with a block plane across the grain

[cda 2012]

Condition Reports

Date2012

  • two vertical splits run from the top through to the bottom of the panel

[cda 2012]

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

Entry with author
<author's name>, 'Philipp Melanchthon', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_AME_MA160/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})
Entry with no author
'Philipp Melanchthon', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document, entry or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_AME_MA160/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})

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