Martin Luther

Martin Luther

Title

Martin Luther

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Sotheby's online-database, accessed 06.10.2020]

A portrait of Martin Luther shown as a half-length figure in three quarter profile, facing to his left against a pale blue background. He is wearing a black academic gown and a beret of the same colour. In his hands he holds a small leather-bound book. Various examples of this

A portrait of Martin Luther shown as a half-length figure in three quarter profile, facing to his left against a pale blue background. He is wearing a black academic gown and a beret of the same colour. In his hands he holds a small leather-bound book. Various examples of this composition were painted in Cranach’s workshop, often with only minor differences. This painting includes a Latin inscription from Isaiah 30, 15, written in yellow: ‘In silentio et spe erit fortitvdo ‘ (in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength).

Attribution
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Sotheby's online-database, accessed 06.10.2020]

Production date
1532

Production date

1532

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 19 x 15.3 cm

Dimensions

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia above the sitter's proper left shoulder: serpent with elevated wings and dated '1532'; in yellow paint

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia above the sitter's proper left shoulder: serpent with elevated wings and dated '1532'; in yellow paint

Inscriptions and Labels
  • along the top in yellow:
    '.IN SILENTIO ET SPE. ERIT FORTITVDO VESTRA.'

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • along the top in yellow:

  • '.IN SILENTIO ET SPE. ERIT FORTITVDO VESTRA.'

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P467
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P467/

Provenance

  • A.F. Philips
    [Sotheby's online-database, accessed 06.10.2020]
  • confiscated by the Nazis; accessioned 10.12.1941
  • Munich no.: 5955; RM no.: 1151
    [Page RMG00506 from the Göring database, DHM; accessed 26.12.2019, not currently online]
  • lost during the Second World War
  • recovered and placed in the care of the Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit, inv. no. 1230
  • restituted to the Philips family
  • sold at Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 04-05.12.2006, lot 497
    [Sotheby's online-database, accessed 06.10.2020]
  • Martin Luther, 1532

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