Portrait of Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony

Portrait of Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony

Title

Portrait of Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony

[cda 2020]

Painting on beech wood

Medium

Painting on beech wood

[Page from an auction catalogue: Galerie Brunsvik, Vienna 11.1902, no. 187; Koepplin Archive]

In this bust-length portrait Johann the Steadfast is shown in three quarter profile against a uniform background, facing to his left. He is wearing a soft beret and has three large chains around his neck.

[cda 2020]

Attribution
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Christie's online, accessed 05.04.2024]; [cda 2020]

Production dates
about 1526 - 1532
about 1525 - 1530

Production dates

about 1526 - 1532

[Heydenreich, Christie's online, accessed 05.04.2024]]

about 1525 - 1530

[Ed. Flechsig, page of an auction catalogue: Galerie Brunsvik, Vienna 11.1902, no. 187; Koepplin Archive]

about 1536

[Hofbauer, Christie's online, accessed 05.04.2024]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 31 x 23.7 cm

Dimensions

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P340
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P340/

Provenance

  • sale Galerie Brunsvik, Vienna Nov. 1903, lot 187
    [Page from an auction catalogue: Galerie Brunsvik, Vienna 11.1902, no. 187; Koepplin Archive]
  • Count Géza Brunsvik de Korompa (1834-1899), Schloss Sommerau, Styria; (†) his sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 25.11.1902, lot 187 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder)
  • with Galerie Gaston Ritter von Mallmann, Berlin, by 1909
  • their sale, Rudolf Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 12.06.1918, lot 58 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder)
  • Baron Alfred Liebieg; (†) his sale, Artaria & Co., Vienna, 22.03.1934, lot 7 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder)
  • Private collection, Switzerland
  • sold at Christie's, New York, 25.05.2023 (as Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder)
    [Christie's online, accessed 05.04.2024]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Frimmel 1913 234, 239
AuthorTheodor von Frimmel
TitleLexikon der Wiener Gemäldesammlungen
SeriesGeschichte der Wiener Gemäldesammlungen
VolumeBd. I.
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication1913
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Voss 1909 4
AuthorHermann Voss
TitleDie Galerie Gaston von Mallmann in Berlin
JournalCicerone
Issue1
Year of Publication1909
Show Literature
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