Philipp I, Duke of Pomerania (1515 - 1560)

Philipp I, Duke of Pomerania (1515 - 1560)

Painting on laid paper

Medium

Painting on laid paper
Tempera, pierre noire (black chalk), charcoal

[Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims online, accessed 01.04.2025]

Portrait of Philipp I, Duke of Pomerania, facing to his left. His face, hair and collar have been modelled with body colour, whereas his shirt is only roughly sketched in.

[cda 2026]

Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Younger
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Younger

[Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims online, accessed 01.04.2025] [Exhib. Cat. Wittenberg 2015, no. 3/3] [Hofbauer 2010, no. 213] [Zimmermann E. H. 1942 A, 4]

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Jahn, Bernhard 1972, 151] [Rosenberg 1960, no. 85] [Girshausen 1936, no. 87]

Albrecht Dürer

former attribution [Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims online, accessed 01.04.2025]

Hans Holbein the Younger

former attribution [Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims online, accessed 01.04.2025]

Dating
about 1540
before 1541

Dating

about 1540

[Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims online, accessed 01.04.2025]

before 1541

[Girshausen 1936, no. 87]

about 1541

[Exhib. Cat. Wittenberg 2015 B, no. 3/3] [Rosenberg 1960, no. 85]

Dimensions
Sheet: 348 x 237 mm

Dimensions

Signature / Dating

none

Inscriptions

- bottom, centre, beneath the sitter, handwritten, pen and ink: 'h pfhilips von pommern'
[Le musée …

Inscriptions

Inscriptions:
Labels

on the backboard:
- top centre, paper label (Wittenberg exhibition): 'LP ART [...]'
- bottom, centre, stamp, black …

Labels

later inscription, stamps, seals, labels:

  • on the backboard:

  • - top centre, paper label (Wittenberg exhibition): 'LP ART [...]'

  • - bottom, centre, stamp, black ink 'MUSEÉ DES BEAUX-ART || REIMS FRANCE [...]'

  • - bottom right, oval stamp, black ink

  • - label with barcode

  • - beneath, handwritten: '795.1.266'

  • - beneath on the tape, handwritten: '795.1.266'

  • - in all four corners, stamp, black ink: 'Encadre sous verre'

  • For further information see also: [Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims online, accessed 01.04.2025]

Owner
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims
Repository
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims
Location
Reims
CDA ID
FR_MR_795-1-266
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/FR_MR_795-1-266/

Provenance

- until 1752 in the collection of Antoine Ferrand de Monthelon (painter and director of the L’école de dessin de Reims)
- in 1752 bequested to the town of Reims
[Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims online, accessed 01.04.2025]

Exhibitions

New York 1951, no. 3
Wittenberg 2015, no. 3/3
Reims 2016, no. 2
Colmar 2021 (no catalogue, Têtes è têtes. Lucas Cranach Le Jeune/ Collège Molière de Colmar, Portraits Musée Unterlinden de Colmar
06/11/2021 - 07/02/2022)
Paris 2025, pp. 16, 17

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Paris 2025 18 Fig. p. 18
AuthorMarie-Hélène Montout-Richard
EditorMusée des Beaux-Arts, Reims
TitleDess(e)ins pour un grand musée
Place of PublicationReims
Year of Publication2025
Link https://www.calameo.com/read/002338616527cb890de67
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Cat. Coburg 2018 216, 217 Fig. 3
AuthorKlaus Weschenfelder
TitleCranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication2018
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Exhib. Cat. Reims 2016 02
AuthorMarie-Hélène Montout-Richard, Catherine Delot
EditorMusée des Beaux-Arts, Reims
TitleRegard sur ...Lucas Cranach le Jeune
Place of PublicationReims
Year of Publication2016
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Exhib. Cat. Wittenb 2015 B
EditorRoland Enke, Jutta Strehle, Katja Schneider
TitleLucas Cranach der Jüngere - Entdeckung eines Meisters, Stiftung Luthergedenkstätten in Sachsen-Anhalt, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Augusteum, 26 June - 1 November 2015
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
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Exhib. Cat. Wittenb 2015 C 18, 60 fn. 10, 63, 64 001 Fig. p. 19
EditorSuzanne Greub
TitleVon Meisterhand : die Cranach-Sammlung des Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, Augusteum/Lutherhaus, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 26 June - 1 November 2015
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
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Montout-Richard 2015 60 fn. 10, 63, 64 001
AuthorMarie-Hélène Montout-Richard
Title"Die Cranachs" von Reims
Publicationin Suzanne Greub, ed., Von Meisterhand : die Cranach-Sammlung des Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, Augusteum/Lutherhaus, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, 26 June - 1 November 2015
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
Pages58-62
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Hofbauer 2010 426, 427 213 Fig. p. 427
AuthorMichael Hofbauer
TitleCranach - die Zeichnungen
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication2010
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Jahn, Bernhard 1972 151 Fig. p. 151
AuthorJohannes Jahn
EditorMarianne Bernhard
TitleLucas Cranach der Ältere: 1472 - 1553. Das gesamte graphische Werk. Mit Exempeln aus dem graphischen Werk Lucas Cranach des Jüngeren und der Cranachwerkstatt
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication1972
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Rosenberg 1960 31 085 pl. 85
AuthorJakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Zeichnungen Lucas Cranachs d.Ä.
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1960
Link https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42777
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Exhib. Cat. New York 1951 03
EditorKnoedler Galleries, New York
TitleA loan exhibition of fifteen portrait drawings of the 16th century from the Museum of Rheims, [Knoedler Galleries, New York, 29.10 - 17.11.1951]
Place of PublicationNew York
Year of Publication1951
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Zimmermann E. H. 1942 A 4
AuthorErnst Heinrich Zimmermann
TitleEin Bildnisentwurf Lucas Cranachs d. J.
JournalBerliner Museen
Issue63 (1942)
Year of Publication1942
Pages2-4
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Bethe 1937 A 35
AuthorHellmuth Bethe
TitleDie Kunst am Hofe der Pommerischen Herzöge
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1937
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Bethe 1937 B Fig. 8
AuthorHellmuth Bethe
TitleDie Bildnisse des pommerschen Herzogshauses
JournalBaltische Studien
IssueNF 39
Year of Publication1937
Link https://www.digitale-bibliothek-mv.de/viewer/image/PPN559838239_NF_39/1/
Pages71-99
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Girshausen 1936 80, 81 087
AuthorTheo Ludwig Girshausen
TitleDie Handzeichnungen Lukas Cranachs des Älteren
Place of PublicationFrankfurt/Main
Year of Publication1936
Link https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.23708
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Rosenberg 1934 A 188 Fig. 3
AuthorJakob Rosenberg
TitleDeutsche Bildzeichnungen des 16. Jhs. im Museum zu Reims
JournalJahrbuch der Preußischen Kunstsammlungen
Issue55
Year of Publication1934
Pages181-189
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Bethe 1933 188, 191
AuthorHellmuth Bethe
TitleEine unbekannte Bildniszeichnung Herzog Philipps I. Sonderdruck aus Monastsblätter der Gesellschaft für Pommersche Geschichte und Altertumskunde
JournalMonastsblätter der Gesellschaft für Pommersche Geschichte und Altertumskunde
IssueJg 47, Nr. 12
Year of Publication1933
Pages180-191
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Research History / Discussion

Preliminary study for a portrait painted in 1541, formerly in the collection of the Grand Duke of Weimar (1934 with Th. Fischer, Lucerne), and published by [Helmut] Bethe in the mid 1930s. He considered the version in Szczecin to be a copy [PL_MNS_Szt-1382].

[Rosenberg 1960, 31, no. 85] (Translated from German, cda 2025)

As early as 1942 Zimmermann [E. H. Zimmermann 1942 A, 4] attributed the study to Cranach the Younger.

[Rosenberg 1960, no. 85]

There is a further portrait following this study by the Master I.S. [DE_KSVC_M023]

[cda 2026]

  • Philipp I, Duke of Pomerania (1515 - 1560), about 1540

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Date2025

- adhered to cardboard

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Philipp I of Pommerania
  • Philipp I of Pommerania, 1541
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