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 double portrait of two other siblings and the family coat of arms at the beginning of
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 double portrait of two other siblings and the family coat of arms at the beginning of the fourth volume.
Unlike the portraits of the parents the daughter is depicted as a full-length figure. The girl stands on green ground against a blue background. She wears a rather stiff looking red dress with gold ornamental bands as well as a wreath set at an angle on top of her blond hair.
The composition is framed by a boarder gilded with gold leaf.
[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 18.5 cm
[Troschke 1939, 26]
- 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-IIr
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SBB_fol-15-IIr/