Friedrich III the Wise, Elector of Saxony

Title

[cda 2014]

Painting on wood

A half-length portrait of Friedrich the Wise shown in three-quarter profile facing right against a neutral background. The elector wears a black beret and a fur-trimmed coat and has a greyish-black beard.

[Görres, cda 2015]

Attributions: Master I.S.
Anonymous Master from the Cranach Workshop

Attributions

Master I.S.	[copy of a picture from an auction catalogue Lempertz in the Archive D. Koepplin, 1963/64]
Anonymous Master from the Cranach Workshop	[cda 2014]

Production date: about 1560

Production date

about 1560

[Teget-Welz 2018, 221, 225]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support:

Dimensions

Dimensions of support:
49 x 35 cm
[handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the copy of a picture from an auction catalogue Lempertz in the Archive D. Koepplin]

Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia at the left edge: monogram 'IS'

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the left edge: monogram 'IS'

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P075
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P075/

Provenance

auction 472 Lempertz 03.1963, Cologne, No. 51
auction 477 Lempertz 04.1964, Cologne, No. 56
[Handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the copy of a picture from an auction catalogue Lempertz in the Archive D. Koepplin]

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Teget-Welz 2018

210, 211, 215, 217, 221, 227

Fig. 14

Author	Manuel Teget-Welz
Title	Von Gotha in die Ganze Welt. Die Fürstenserie des Monogrammisten IS
Publication	in Klaus Weschenfelder, ed., Cranach 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 Publication	Regensburg
Year of Publication	2018
Pages	209-228

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