Portrait head facing left against a blue background. The sitter is wearing a beret and a fur cloak.
[Brigitte Reineke, DHM, 2015/2016]
- Attribution
- Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Deutsches Historisches Museum, revised 2016] |
- Production date
- about 1532
Production date
about 1532 | [Deutsches Historisches Museum, revised 2016] (Results of dendrochronological analysis by Prof. Dr. Peter Klein, UHH, Zentrum Holzwirtschaft, 06.10.2015) |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 36.3 x 23.7 x 0.4 cm (thinned, cradled)
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 36.3 x 23.7 x 0.4 cm (thinned, cradled)
Dimensions of the painted surface: 21.2 x 22.5-23.0 cm/Paper: two pieces:
left: 14.5 x 11.5 cm (does not extend to the bottom edge), right: 13 x 12 cm
Dimensions including frame: 45.6 x 32.5 x 5.5 cm (glazed)
[Deutsche Historisches Museum, revised 2016]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia, at the right beside the hair: winged serpent; in pale yellow paint
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia, at the right beside the hair: winged serpent; in pale yellow paint
[Brigitte Reineke, DHM, 2015/2016]
- Inscriptions and Labels
- lower half of the panel, a sheet of paper with two pages from a book: Written in verse the …
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- lower half of the panel, a sheet of paper with two pages from a book:
Written in verse the two columns record the sitter's dynastic legitimation, praise his absolute will for reformation and underlines his loyal relationship with the emperor. The text is identical to that on DE_KSW_G8 (see also portraits in the Klassik Stiftung Weimar Museen and Budapest)
[Brigitte Reineke, DHM, 2015/2016]
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
Reverse of the cradle:
'889(5/6?) 6'
[Brigitte Reineke, DHM, 2015/2016]
- Owner
- Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
- Repository
- Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
- Location
- Berlin
- CDA ID
- DE_DHM_Gm95-56
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_DHM_Gm95-56/
- lower half of the panel, a sheet of paper with two pages from a book: Written in verse the …