The sheet is from an edition of the Lutheran bible printed in four volumes on parchment in 1561 for Nikolaus von Ebeleben [Libri in membr. impr. fol. 12-15] and is located opposite Ebeleben's coat of arms at the beginning of the second volume.
It depicts Nikolaus von Ebeleben as
The sheet is from an edition of the Lutheran bible printed in four volumes on parchment in 1561 for Nikolaus von Ebeleben [Libri in membr. impr. fol. 12-15] and is located opposite Ebeleben's coat of arms at the beginning of the second volume.
It depicts Nikolaus von Ebeleben as a half-length figure facing right against a bright blue background. He wears a fur-trimmed cloak over his shoulders and holds his gloves in his right hand. Numerous gold chains are visible beneath his pointed beard and broad moustache.
The composition is framed by a boarder gilded with gold leaf. This encompasses an empty text field beneath the portrait.
[Görres, cda 2015]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Younger
Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Younger | [Fliege 1998, 262] |
- Production date
- 1562
Production date
1562 | [Portrait of Luther dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support (parchment sheet): 37.5 x 25 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support (parchment sheet): 37.5 x 25 cm
[Willing-Stritzke in Exhib. Cat. Wittenberg 2015, 390]
Dimensions of painted surface: 30 x 18 cm
[Troschke 1939, 24]
- Signature / Dating
None. The portrait of Luther in the first volume [Libri in membr. impr. fol. 12, fol. Ir] is signed and dated at the left next to the shoulder: winged serpent with dropped wings, facing left and dated '1562'; in gold
Signature / Dating
None. The portrait of Luther in the first volume [Libri in membr. impr. fol. 12, fol. Ir] is signed and dated at the left next to the shoulder: winged serpent with dropped wings, facing left and dated '1562'; in gold
[cda 2015]
- Owner
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
- Repository
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Abt. Historische Drucke
- Location
- Berlin
- CDA ID
- DE_SBB_fol-13-Iv
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SBB_fol-13-Iv/