Portrait of Johann the Steadfast of Saxony

Portrait of Johann the Steadfast of Saxony

Title

Portrait of Johann the Steadfast of Saxony

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Bust-length portrait of Johann the Steadfast against a blue background, facing left. The elector wears a black hat, a fur cloak and a white shirt.

[Görres, cda 2015]

Attribution
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Exhib. Cat. Florence 2017, 76]
[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Production date
1533

Production date

1533

[Pendant dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 20 x 15 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 20 x 15 cm

  • [Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Signature / Dating

Pendant signed and dated.

Signature / Dating

  • Pendant signed and dated.

  • [cda 2014]

Inscriptions and Labels

Printed paper, top left: 'Johans der Erst / Churfurst
vnd Hertzog zu Sachssen.'

Printed paper, underneath the sitter, in two …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • Printed paper, top left:

  • 'Johans der Erst / Churfurst

  • vnd Hertzog zu Sachssen.'

  • Printed paper, underneath the sitter, in two columns:

    • Left column:
  • 'Nach meines lieben bruders end

  • Bleib auff mir gantz Regimend.

  • Mit grosser sorg vnd mancher fahr

  • Da der Bawer toll vnd töricht war.

  • Die auffrhur fast ynn allem land

  • Wie gros fewer im wald entbrand.

  • Welches ich halff dempfen mit Gott

  • Der Deudsches land erret aus not.

  • Der Rottengeister feind ich war

  • Hielt im land das wort rein vnd klar.

  • Gros drawen bittern hass vnd neid

  • Vmb Gottes worts willen ich leid.

  • Frey bekand ichs aus hertzem grund

  • Vnd personlich selbst ich da stund.

  • Vor dem Keisar vnd gantzen Reich

  • Von Fursten gschach vor nie des gleich

  • Solchs gab mir mein Gott besnnder [sic!]

  • Vnd vor der wellt was ein wunder.'

    • Right column:
  • 'Vmd land vnd leut zu bringen mich

  • Hofft beid freund und feind gewislich.

  • Ferdnand zu Römischm König gmacht

  • Vnd sein wahl ich allein anfacht.

  • Auff das das alte Recht bestünd

  • Inn der gulden Bullen gegründ.

  • Wiewol das grossen zorn erregt

  • Mich doch mehr recht denn gunst beweg[t]

  • Das hertz gab Gott dem Keisar zart

  • Mein guter freund zu letzt er ward.

  • Das ich mein end im frid beschlos

  • Vast sehr den Teuffel das verdros.

  • Erfarn hab ichs vnd zeugen thar

  • Wie vns die Schrifft sagt vnd ist war.

  • Wer Gott mit ernst vertrawen kan

  • Der bleibt ein vnnerdorben [sic!] man.

  • Es zürne Teuffel odder welt

  • Den sieg er doch zuletzt behelt.'

  • [Görres, cda 2015]

Owner
Galleria Uffizi, Firenze
Repository
Galleria Uffizi, Firenze
Location
Florence
CDA ID
IT_GdU_1890-1149
FR (1978) Nr.
FR338B
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/IT_GdU_1890-1149/

Provenance

  • private collection, the collection of Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici, Florence, before 1675 (accession date)
  • Villa medicea di Poggio Imperiale, Florence, 1773 (de-accessioned)
  • Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina e Appartamenti, Guardaroba, Florence, 14-6-1796 (de-accessioned)
  • Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florence
  • Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, Florence
  • Castello di Poppi, Poppi, 19-12-1942 (accession date)
  • Castel Giovo, Bolzano, San Leonardo
  • Palazzo Pitti, Museo degli Argenti, Florence, 22-7-1945 (accession date)
  • Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florence, 3-3-1951 (accession date)

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Biotti 2017 131, 132
AuthorAndrea Biotti
TitleVirtuosismi dorati per i padri della Riforma. Due cornici die Crosten per quattro ritratti di Cranach. Vicende Storiche e documentarie
Publicationin Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara, eds., I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee, Exhib. Cat. Florence, 2017
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Pages130-132
Exhib. Cat. Florence 2017 76, 77 7 Pl. p. 77
EditorFrancesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara
Title I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee [Uffizi, Florence]
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Fara 2017 55
AuthorGiovanni Maria Fara
TitleLe incisioni di Lucas Cranach il Vecchio agli Uffizi. Un percoso storico critico
Publicationin Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara, eds., I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee , Exhib. Cat. Florence, 2017
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Pages48-59
Fürst 2017 135
AuthorAviv Fürst
TitleRagioni tecniche ed estetiche di un'attribuzione
Publicationin Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara, eds., I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee , Exhib. Cat. Florence, 2017
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Pages132-135
Luca 2017 43, 45, 46
AuthorFrancesca de Luca
TitleI volti della Riforma nelle collezioni granducali
Publicationin Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara, eds., I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee , Exhib. Cat. Florence, 2017
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Pages42-47
Price 2017 20
AuthorDavid H. Price
TitleLucas Cranach e la Riforma
Publicationin Francesca de Luca, Giovanni Maria Fara, eds., I volti della Riforma. Lutero e Cranach nelle collezioni medicee , Exhib. Cat. Florence, 2017
Place of PublicationFlorence, Milan
Year of Publication2017
Pages12-27
Bünsche 1998 A 61
AuthorBernd Bünsche
TitleDie Verwendung von Lochpausen bei der Anfertigung der Fürstenportraits durch Lucas Cranach den Älteren
Publicationin Ingo Sandner, Wartburg-Stiftung Eisenach and Fachhochschule Köln, ed., Unsichtbare Meisterzeichnungen auf dem Malgrund. Cranach und seine Zeitgenossen, Exhib. Cat. Eisenach
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication1998
Pages61-64
Cat. Florence 1979 230 No. P465 Fig.
Authorn. a.
TitleCatalogo dei dipinti
Place of PublicationFlorence
Year of Publication1979
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 No. 338B
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Conservation History

Date1994

Conservation treatment

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

  • conservation treatment by Maria Rita Signorini

Date1960

Conservation treatment

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

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