Duke Ernst I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg

Duke Ernst I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg

Title

Duke Ernst I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg

[cda 2018]

Painting on limewood

Medium

Painting on limewood

[Cat. Coburg 2018, 160]

Bust-length portrait of Ernst I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (1497-1546), called the Confessor, against a bluish-green background, facing to the right.

Attribution
Master I.S.

Attribution

Master I.S.

[Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, revised 2018] [Cat. Coburg 2018, 160]

Production date
about 1560

Production date

about 1560

[Teget-Welz 2018, 224, 225] [Cat. Coburg 2018, 160]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 50 x 36 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 50 x 36 cm

  • [Cat. Coburg 2018, 160]

Signature / Dating

none

Inscriptions and Labels
  • top right: 'ERNESTVS DVX LVNEBVR'
    [Cat. Coburg 2018, 160] Reverse of the panel:
    adhesive label HKA 'Cap. XXII, …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • top right:

  • 'ERNESTVS DVX LVNEBVR'

  • [Cat. Coburg 2018, 160]

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel: adhesive label HKA 'Cap. XXII, 27a'; label HKA.; label KVC.; handwritten: '23'

  • [Cat. Coburg 2018, 160]

Owner
Veste Coburg Kunstsammlungen
Repository
Bomann-Museum, Celle
Location
Celle
CDA ID
DE_KSVC_M024
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_KSVC_M024/

Provenance

  • this painting is one of a series originally from Gotha and belonged to the original art cabinet established by Duke Ernst the Pious, the patriarch of the Ernestine Saxony-Gotha family line and ordered that Friedenstein castle be built
  • an inventory from 1638 lists the paintings in the lower salon of the residency in Weimar
  • 1644 listed in the 'Taffelstuben' of the 'Gothaer Kaufhaus'
  • 1656 listed in the earliest surviving inventory from Friedenstein castle 'Inventarium über die Kunst Cammer'
  • removed from Friedenstein castle sometime between 1856 and 1876; the painting was last recorded in Gotha in Georg Rathgeber's 'Beschreibung der Herzoglichen Gemälde-Gallerie zu Gotha [...]' [1835] as part of a series then consisting of 27 portraits
    [Teget-Welz 2018, 210, 211]
  • since 2011 on permanent loan to the Bomann-Museum in Celle
    [cda 2022]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Cat. Coburg 2018 160, 161 31 Pl. p. 161
AuthorKlaus Weschenfelder
TitleCranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication2018
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Teget-Welz 2018 209-228 Fig. 28
AuthorManuel Teget-Welz
TitleVon Gotha in die Ganze Welt. Die Fürstenserie des Monogrammisten IS
Publicationin Klaus Weschenfelder, ed., Cranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication2018
Pages209-228
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Weschenfelder 2018 A 14, 18
AuthorKlaus Weschenfelder
TitleCranach in Coburg.
Publicationin Klaus Weschenfelder, ed., Cranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication2018
Pages7-23
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Rathgeber 1835 191 f. 022 (23)
AuthorGeorg Rathgeber
TitleBeschreibung der Herzoglichen Gemälde-Galerie zu Gotha
Place of PublicationGotha
Year of Publication1835
Link https://dhb.thulb.uni-jena.de/receive/ufb_cbu_00011801
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Research History / Discussion

A series of portraits depicting noble men by the monogrammist IS. These paintings were without doubt originally conceived as a series. This theory is supported by various visual clues, including their similar dimensions and uniform backgrounds. In addition all the sitters are shown as half-length figures in three quarter profile with their hands positioned in front of their bodies. Six of the portraits are signed with the monogram IS. The series was probably created about 1560.

[Teget-Welz 2018, 209]

There is a second version of this portrait by the monogrammist IS in the Lutherhaus, Wittenberg [DE_LHW_G89] (G.89, formerly Gotha, Gemäldegalerie Schloss Friedenstein, Inv. no. 381, see: [Schuttwolf 2011, no. 261].

[Cat. Coburg 2018, 160]

  • Duke Ernst I of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, about 1560

Images

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Conservation History

Date1959

Restored and cradled

[Cat. Coburg 2018, 160]

  • conservation treatment by Josef Wuttke

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