Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus

Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2020]

A small format half-length portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam, facing to our left against a blue background with his hands clasped in front of him. He is wearing a black beret and a black fur lined gown tied with a thin band above the waist.

[cda 2020]

Attribution
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[cda 2020]

Dating
1533

Dating

1533

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 19 x 15.25 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 19 x 15.25 cm

  • [E-mail correspondance Mark Adams Fine Art with cda, 01.10.2018]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the right above the sitter's proper left shoulder: serpent with elevated wings, facing left and dated above '1533'; in black paint

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the right above the sitter's proper left shoulder: serpent with elevated wings, facing left and dated above '1533'; in black paint

Inscriptions

none

Inscriptions

Inscriptions:

  • none

Labels

Reverse of the panel: - paper label with blue frame, handwritten in black ink: 'Christie's: April 11th 1906 // …

Labels

later inscription, stamps, seals, labels:

  • Reverse of the panel: - paper label with blue frame, handwritten in black ink: 'Christie's: April 11th 1906 // CRANACH // Lot 83 Portrait of Erasmus in // Black Dress, trimmed with fur // and black cap. - 71/4" by 51/2". // -525-'

  • - paper label, handwritten in black ink: 'No 4'

  • - remnants of a paper label

  • - remains of a red wax seal

  • - round white cardboard label, printed: 'Gretton // Collection // 12'

  • - paper label, printed: 'G. A. Rose // Picture Cleaner and Restorer'

  • - paper label, printed: '23, PELHAM STREET, // S. Kensington Station, s. w.'

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P372
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P372/

Provenance

- Christie's, London, 11.04.1906 (Miss Bevil)
[E-mail correspondance Mark Adams Fine Art with cda, 01.10.2018]

  • Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus, 1533

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