Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony

Title

[cda 2014]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood	[cda 2014]
Walnut or Poplar wood	[letter from the Gallery Derek Johns in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2009]

A bust-length portrait of the elector in three-quarter profile, facing right and wearing a beret and fur-collar.

[Görres, cda 2014]

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder (and Workshop)

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder (and Workshop)

[handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on a letter from Turquin Experts en Tableaux in the Archive D. Koepplin, 10.2008]

Production date: about 1532 - 1533

Production date

about 1532 - 1533

[cda 2014]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support:

Dimensions

Dimensions of support:
16 x 15.5 cm
[letter from Turquin Experts en Tableaux in the Archive D. Koepplin, 10.2008]

Signature / Dating: None

Inscriptions and Labels

top left: 'Johanns der Erst/Churfurst
vnd herzog zu Sachssen'

[cda 2014] On the reverse:
red seal

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

- top left:
'Johanns der Erst/Churfurst
vnd herzog zu Sachssen'
[cda 2014]

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

On the reverse: red seal

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P079
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P079/

Connected Works

Provenance

12.2008 Turquin Experts en Tableaux, Paris
[Letter from Turquin Experts en Tableaux in the Archive D. Koepplin, 10.2008]
aquired from the Gallery Derek Johns, London
[letter from the Gallery Derek Johns in the Archive D. Koepplin, 12.2008]

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Grimm 1994

179

Fig. A17

Author	Claus Grimm
Title	Lucas Cranach 1994
Publication	in Claus Grimm, Johannes Erichsen, Evamaria Brockhoff, eds., Lucas Cranach. Ein Maler-Unternehmer aus Franken, Exhib. Cat. Kronach 1994
Series	Veröffentlichungen zur bayerischen Geschichte und Kultur
Volume	26
Place of Publication	Augsburg, Regensburg
Year of Publication	1994
Pages	18-43

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Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony, about 1532 - 1533

Images

Conservation History

2009 restored

[handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on a letter in the Archiv D. Koepplin]

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

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