Prince Johann II of Anhalt [Copy of a portrait in Jagdschloss Grunewald]

Prince Johann II of Anhalt [Copy of a portrait in Jagdschloss Grunewald]

Title

Prince Johann II of Anhalt [Copy of a portrait in Jagdschloss Grunewald]

[cda 2015]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16545; accessed 7 April 2015]

A knee-length portrait of Prince Johann of Anhalt (1504-1551) in armour. The painting is subtlely executed with great attention to detail. The boy faces left and is wearing a red beret on his head. He has placed his right hand on his hip and his left hand rests on the

A knee-length portrait of Prince Johann of Anhalt (1504-1551) in armour. The painting is subtlely executed with great attention to detail. The boy faces left and is wearing a red beret on his head. He has placed his right hand on his hip and his left hand rests on the hilt of his sword. He wears plated armour exhibiting large rims on the shoulders and has a golden chain with a pendant set with precious stones around his neck. He carries a large sword on his left side and a dagger is visible in his belt.

The original version of the painting by Lucas Cranach was in the Gotisches Haus in Wörlitz until 1918 and has been in Schloss Grunewald, Berlin since 1958.

[Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16545; accessed 7 April 2015]

Attribution
Heinrich Olivier (Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder)

Attribution

Heinrich Olivier (Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder)

[Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16545; accessed 7 April 2015]

Production date
1824

Production date

1824

[Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16545; accessed 7 April 2015]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 67.4 x 49.6 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 67.4 x 49.6 cm

  • [Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16545; accessed 7 April 2015]

Signature / Dating

None

Inscriptions and Labels
  • above the sitter's head and framed by tracery:
    'EFFIGIES ILLVSTRIS / ADVLESCETIS DO/MINI IOHANNIS // PRINCIPIS IN ANHALT/ ANO …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • above the sitter's head and framed by tracery:

  • 'EFFIGIES ILLVSTRIS / ADVLESCETIS DO/MINI IOHANNIS // PRINCIPIS IN ANHALT/ ANO AETATIS EIVS / SEIDECIMO 1520.'

  • [Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://www.museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=16545; accessed 7 April 2015]

Owner
Bundesland Sachsen-Anhalt
Repository
Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz, Gotisches Haus (The Gothic House)
Location
Wörlitz
CDA ID
DE_SA-KsDW_M03-2002
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SA-KsDW_M03-2002/

Connected Works

Prince Joachim II of Brandenburg [Copy of portrait in Jagdschloss Grundewald]
  • Prince Joachim II of Brandenburg [Copy of portrait in Jagdschloss Grundewald], 1824
  • DE_SA-KsDW_M02-2002
  • Painting
  • Bundesland Sachsen-Anhalt

Provenance

  • acquired for the 'Gotische Haus' in 2002
    [Melzer 2005, 56]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Wörlitz 2015 140-141
EditorKulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz
EditingWolfgang Savelsberg
TitleCranach im Gotischen Haus in Wörlitz, [Wörlitz, Gotisches Haus, 15 May - 4 Oct. 2015]
SeriesKataloge und Schriften der Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz
Volume35
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
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Melzer 2015 B 154, 155 11
AuthorReinhard Melzer
TitleDer Cranach-Bestand des Gotischen Hauses
Publicationin Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz, ed., Cranach im Gotischen Haus in Wörlitz, Exhib. Cat. Wörlitz
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
Pages149-162
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Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz 2005 56
EditorHarald Marx, Karin Kolb, Ingrid Mössinger
TitleCranach Anlässlich der Ausstellung Cranach vom 13. November 2005 bis 12. März 2006 in den Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz. Eine Ausstellung in Kooperation mit der Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication2005
Show Literature
Melzer 2005 56
AuthorReinhard Melzer
TitleCranach in Wörlitz. Das Gotische Haus als frühe Sammlungsstätte altdeutscher Malerei
Publicationin Harald Marx, Ingrid Mössinger, Karin Kolb, ed., Cranach. Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication2005
Pages44-58
Show Literature
  • Prince Johann II of Anhalt [Copy of a portrait in Jagdschloss Grunewald], 1824

Images

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Versions

Prince Johann of Anhalt
  • Prince Johann of Anhalt, about 1520
  • DE_SPSG_GKI30029
  • Painting
  • Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg

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