Elector Friedrich the Wise

Elector Friedrich the Wise

Title

Elector Friedrich the Wise

[Kolb 2005 B, 105]

Painting on canvas

Medium

Painting on canvas

[Lutherhaus Wittenberg, revised 2012]

A full-length portrait of Friedrich the Wise facing right and shown wearing his official coat and hat, with a short sword against a stone-grey niche on an tiled ivory coloured floor. In the upper corners on the left: the coloured coat-of-arms in yellowish scrollwork, on the right: the coloured electoral

A full-length portrait of Friedrich the Wise facing right and shown wearing his official coat and hat, with a short sword against a stone-grey niche on an tiled ivory coloured floor. In the upper corners on the left: the coloured coat-of-arms in yellowish scrollwork, on the right: the coloured electoral coat-of-arms in yellowish scrollwork.

[Lutherhaus Wittenberg, revised 2012]

Attributions
Lucas Cranach der Jüngere
Lucas Cranach the Younger (?)

Attributions

Lucas Cranach der Jüngere

[Kolb 2005, 97-98]

Lucas Cranach the Younger (?)

[Lutherhaus Wittenberg, revised 2012]

Production dates
about 1570
about 1580

Production dates

about 1570

[Kolb 2005 B, 100]

about 1580

[Lutherhaus Wittenberg, revised 2012]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 221 x 106 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 221 x 106 cm

  • [Kolb 2005 B, 105]

Signature / Dating

None

Inscriptions and Labels

  • on the sword:
    'F/D/G/D/S/S/R/I/A/E/E'

  • bottom right:
    'INCHOAVIT'

[Lutherhaus Wittenberg, revised 2012]

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • on the sword:

  • 'F/D/G/D/S/S/R/I/A/E/E'

    • bottom right:

  • 'INCHOAVIT'

  • [Lutherhaus Wittenberg, revised 2012]

Owner
Evangelisches Predigerseminar Wittenberg
Repository
Lutherhaus Wittenberg
Location
Wittenberg
CDA ID
DE_EPSW_06
FR (1978) Nr.
FR338G
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_EPSW_06/

Provenance

  • on loan from the Protestant theological seminary

[Lutherhaus Wittenberg, revised 2012]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Kolb 2005 B
AuthorKarin Kolb
TitleLandesherrliche Repräsentation an der Universität. Die Wittenberger Kurfürstenbildnisse von Lucas Cranach dem Jüngeren
Publicationin Barbara Marx, ed., Kunst und Repräsentation am Dresdner Hof
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2005
Pages97-107
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  • Elector Friedrich the Wise, about 1570

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Conservation History

Date1983

  • no information available
  • conservation treatment by Unknown

Versions

Friedrich III the Wise, Elector of Saxony
  • Friedrich III the Wise, Elector of Saxony, about 1540 - 1545
  • DE_KSW_G16
  • Painting
  • Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Museums

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