Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

Title

Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Lost Art online database: http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/419892; accessed 02.03.2020]

The panel shows a half-length portrait of Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen in three-quarter profile against a pale blue background. His face, framed by a beard and receding grayish brown hair, is turned to the right. He has folded his hands in front of him and is wearing a rather simple

The panel shows a half-length portrait of Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen in three-quarter profile against a pale blue background. His face, framed by a beard and receding grayish brown hair, is turned to the right. He has folded his hands in front of him and is wearing a rather simple black coat buttoned below the neck. A white shirt with a high collar is visible beneath as are the chains around his neck. These are decorated with two pendants one appears to be a small vessel, the other a drinking mug, bearing a male portrait.

[cda 2020]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Lost Art online database: http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/419892; accessed 02.03.2020]

Production dates
1532 (?)
after 1540

Production dates

1532 (?)

[dated, but probably not genuine, cda 2020]

after 1540

[more likely to have been created after 1540, cda 2020]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 52 x 36 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 52 x 36 cm

  • [Lost Art online database: http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/419892; accessed 02.03.2020]

  • Dimensions of support: 52.3 x 36 cm

  • [Written communication, Bogdan Voron, 2013]

Signature / Dating

Left edge above the shoulder dated: '1532', probably not genuine

Signature / Dating

  • Left edge above the shoulder dated: '1532', probably not genuine

  • [cda 2020]

Inscriptions and Labels

A coat of arms from the House of Ascania is painted on the reverse Reverse of the panel: - …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • A coat of arms from the House of Ascania is painted on the reverse

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel: - lower half, in black paint: '36' (crossed out); beneath this, also in black paint: 'Johann // Furst zu Anhalt // geb. 1504. + 1551'; beneath, in black paint: '1528.'; in red chalk: '10'

    • on vertical batten, in pencil: '1528'; stamped: '6937'
Owner
Herzogliches Haus Anhalt
Repository
Unknown
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P328
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P328/

Provenance

  • Duke Joachim Ernst of Anhalt, Dessau castle, kept in the castle treasury
    [Lost Art online database: http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/419892; accessed 02.03.2020]
  • since 2010 registered in the Lost Art Datenbank as missing
    [Lost Art online database: http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/419892; accessed 02.03.2020]
  • probably held in the Volyn Regional Museum, 2013
    [written communication, Bogdan Voron, 2013]
  • Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, 1532 (?)

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