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 the coat of arms belonging to the von Carlowitz family at the beginning of the third volume.
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 the coat of arms belonging to the von Carlowitz family at the beginning of the third volume.
It depicts Nikolaus von Ebeleben¿s wife, Margarethe von Carlowitz, as a half-length figure facing left against a bright blue background. The lady wears a black, richly decorated dress with fur-trimming and a round hat over a gold woven hairnet.
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: 30.5 x 18 cm
[Troschke 1939, 25]
- 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-14-IIr
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SBB_fol-14-IIr/