Philipp Melanchthon

Title

Philipp Melanchthon

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Lost Art online database: http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/411774; accessed 06.03.2020]

The panel shows a half-length portrait of Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560) wearing a black coat over a doublet and white shirt, and holding a scroll in his left hand.

[cda 2020]

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Younger

[cda 2020]

Production date: about 1545 - 1550

Production date

about 1545 - 1550

[cda 2020]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 19.5 x 14 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 19.5 x 14 cm
[on the reverse of a b/w photograph in the Friedländer Archive]
Dimensions of support: 21 x 15.4 cm
[Lost Art online database: http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/411774; accessed 06.03.2020]

Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia at the right above the sitter's proper left shoulder: serpent with dropped wings, facing left

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the right above the sitter's proper left shoulder: serpent with dropped wings, facing left

Inscriptions and Labels: none

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

none

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P331
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P331/

Provenance

1941 from the collection of Ernst Magnus
from the art market in Lausanne to the art dealer Theodor Fischer, 27.02.1941
sold by him on the 27.2.1941 for sfr. 8.000,- to Hermann Göring (Inventory Reichsmarschall, RM-No. 932; CCP Munich, Munich no. 5953)
on the 18.5.1961 transferred by the trusteeship to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen for the Freestate of Baveria ( BSTGS, Inv.No. 13179)
1966 there delivered
September 1967 with the assistence of the Brienner Galerie Lodi, Munich, sold to the art dealer W. Kelberer, Zürich, for DM 21.000,--

see: [Lost Art online database, accessed 06.03.2020]; [DHM - Kunstsammlung Hermann Göring online database, accessed 06.03.2020]

Philipp Melanchthon, about 1545 - 1550

Images

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

Entry with author: <author's name>, 'Philipp Melanchthon', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P331/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})
Entry with no author: 'Philipp Melanchthon', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document, entry or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P331/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})

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