Portrait of an unknown male sitter (August of Saxony?)

Portrait of an unknown male sitter (August of Saxony?)

Painting on laid paper

Medium

Painting on laid paper
Tempera

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Portrait of a bearded man, facing to the left. His face and beard have been modelled with body colour.

[cda 2026]

Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Younger
Albrecht Dürer

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Younger

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

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 1550

Dating

about 1550

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

Dimensions
Sheet: 365 x 247 mm

Dimensions

Signature / Dating

none

Inscriptions

none

Inscriptions

Inscriptions:

  • none

Labels

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

Labels

later inscription, stamps, seals, labels:

  • On the backboard:

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

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

  • - bottom right, oval stamp, black ink; label with barcode

  • - beneath, handwritten: '795.1.276'

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

  • On the frame: - lower member, on the tape, handwrittenin pen: '795.1.276'; label with barcode

  • 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_795-1-276
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/FR_MR_795-1-276/

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
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Exhibitions

Wittenberg 2015, no. 3/13
Reims 2016, no. 11
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, p. 22

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Paris 2025 22 Fig. p. 22
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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Exhib. Cat. Reims 2016 11
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 114-123, 319, 322, 324, 326, 327 3/13 Fig. p. 327
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 38, 39, 47, 50, 67 11 Figs. pp. 39, 50
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 1994 14, 64, 65, 87
AuthorMusée des Beaux-Arts, Reims, Marie-Hélène Montout
TitleCranach l'Ancien et le Jeune
Place of PublicationReims
Year of Publication1994
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Rosenberg 1934 A
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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Research History / Discussion

Hofbauer’s suggestion that the sitter depicted might be Joachim Ernst von Anhalt [Hofbauer, Exhib. Cat. Wittenb 2015, 38] is not supported by a comparison with extant portrait paintings and their dates.

[cda 2026]

  • Portrait of an unknown male sitter (August of Saxony?), about 1550

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Date2025

- adhered to cardboard

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