Half-length portrait of Friedrich (III) the Wise, Elector of Saxony (1463 - 1525), facing right, against a light blue background. He wears a black beret and a fur-lined overcoat.
[Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Unsinn 2010]
- Attributions
-
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder | After 1860 it was considered to be a workshop portrait |
Lucas Cranach the Elder | It was attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder until at least 1841 |
- Production date
- 1532
Production date
1532 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 13.5 x 13.5 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 13.5 x 13.5 cm
Dimensions including frame: 20.5 x 20.5 cm
[Gemäldegalerie, revised 2010]
- Signature / Dating
- Artist's insignia above the sitter's proper right shoulder: winged serpent with elevated wings and dated '1532' above
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia above the sitter's proper right shoulder: winged serpent with elevated wings and dated '1532' above
- Inscriptions and Labels
- - top right: there was once an inscription - bottom: remains of an inscription Both inscriptions were probably the same …
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- - top right:
- there was once an inscription
- - bottom:
- remains of an inscription
- Both inscriptions were probably the same as those found on the copies (see related works)
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
- Reverse of the panel:
- Organic pattern, below a coat-of-arms.
- (possibly with a dark glaze?)
- Woodcut, Coat-of-arms belonging to Johannes of Saxony
- [handwritten in the documentation file]
- - top:
- label: 'N No 315/ Pie: Zoll/ A 5'
- - Top right:
- label: 'Staatliche Museen Berlin - Gemäldegalerie/ Katalog Nr. 636/ Lucas Cranach d. Ä. Schule/ Friedrich der Weise'
- - Beneath to the right:
- 'I. 715.'
- - Left: label:
- 'K.Nr. 636/ Inv. I/715'
- [Gemäldegalerie, revised 2010]
- Owner
- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
- Repository
- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
- Location
- Berlin
- CDA ID
- DE_smbGG_636
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_smbGG_636/