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 together with a portrait of the eldest daughter and the family coat of arms at the beginning of the
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 together with a portrait of the eldest daughter and the family coat of arms at the beginning of the fourth volume.
The sheet shows the two youngest children of the family. Troschke 1939, 26-27 identifies them with the unconfirmed names Georg (left) and Katharina (right). Both children wear the same clothes and are holding hands. The boy holds an apple in his hand and the girl holds grapes. Only the red feathered plume on the boy¿s hat and the hair wreath worn by the girl serve to identify their gender. Both stand against a blue background on a heavily vegetated ground.
The composition is framed by a boarder gilded with gold leaf. This encompasses an empty text field beneath the double 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, 27]
- 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-15-IIIv
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SBB_fol-15-IIIv/