Portrait of Friedrich III, the Wise of Saxony

Portrait of Friedrich III, the Wise of Saxony

Title

Portrait of Friedrich III, the Wise of Saxony

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Bust-length portrait of Friedrich the Wise against a blue background, facing right. 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

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 20 x 15 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 20 x 15 cm

  • [Galleria Uffizi, revised 2014]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the centre left: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1533'.

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the centre left: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1533'.

  • [cda 2014]

Inscriptions and Labels

on paper, at the top, right: 'Friderich der Drit/ Chur=
furst und Hertzog zu
Sachssen.'

on paper, beneath the sitter:

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • on paper, at the top, right:

  • 'Friderich der Drit/ Chur=

  • furst und Hertzog zu

  • Sachssen.'

  • on paper, beneath the sitter:

  • 'Fridrich bin ich billich genand

  • Schönen frid ich erhielt im land.

  • Durch gros vernunfft / gedult und glück

  • Widder manchen ertzbösen tück.

  • Das land ich zieret mit gebew

  • Und Stifft ein hohe Schul auffs new.

  • Zu Wittemberg im Sachssen land

  • Inn der welt die ward bekand

  • Denn aus der selb kam Gottes wort

  • Und thet gros ding an manchem ort.

  • Das Bepstlich reich störtze es nidder

  • Und bracht rechten glauben widder.

  • Zum Keisar ward erkorn ich

  • Des mein alter beschweret sich.

  • Dafur ich Keisar Carl erwelt

  • Von dem mich nicht wand gonst noch gelt.'

  • [Görres, cda 2015]

Owner
Galleria Uffizi, Firenze
Repository
Galleria Uffizi, Firenze
Location
Florence
CDA ID
IT_GdU_1890-1150
FR (1978) Nr.
FR338B
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/IT_GdU_1890-1150/

Connected Works

Portrait of Johann the Steadfast of Saxony
  • Portrait of Johann the Steadfast of Saxony, 1533
  • IT_GdU_1890-1149
  • Painting
  • Galleria Uffizi, Firenze

Provenance

  • Villa medicea di Poggio Imperiale, Florence
  • 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
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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
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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
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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
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Luca 2017 43, 45
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
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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
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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
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Cat. Florence 1979 230 P464 fig.
Authorn. a.
TitleCatalogo dei dipinti
Place of PublicationFlorence
Year of Publication1979
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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

Date1960

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