Portrait of Sibylle of Cleve

Portrait of Sibylle of Cleve

Title

Portrait of Sibylle of Cleve

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Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

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The painting shows a half-length portrait of the princess against a neutral background, facing left. Her black embroidered dress is laced around the stomach and has a high stiff collar. She wears a pendant set with precious stones around her neck as well as a pearl necklace. Her neck is

The painting shows a half-length portrait of the princess against a neutral background, facing left. Her black embroidered dress is laced around the stomach and has a high stiff collar. She wears a pendant set with precious stones around her neck as well as a pearl necklace. Her neck is concealed by a white pleated blouse with a decoratively embroidered high collar and her hair is tucked under a pearl snood. The pearls on the snood reveal the 'H'. Her attire is completed with a black beret set at an angle and decorated with feathers.

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Attribution
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 337B]

Production date
after 1537

Production date

after 1537

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 337B]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: no information available

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: no information available

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the bottom right: serpent with dropped wings, facing left

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the bottom right: serpent with dropped wings, facing left

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P492
FR (1978) Nr.
FR337B
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P492/

Connected Works

Portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony
  • Portrait of Johann Friedrich the Magnanimous, Elector of Saxony, after 1537
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P493
  • Painting
  • Private Collection

Provenance

  • in the Collection of Marczell Nemes (Munich)
    [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 337B]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 337B
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 79 271 (under)
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
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Research History / Discussion

The portrait is similar to a number of other paintings attributed to the Cranach workshop from about the same period: a version in the Veste Coburg [DE_KSVC_M020], one in Schloss Friedenstein, Gotha [DE_SMG_SG12], two of slightly larger dimension, one in the Landesgalerie Burgenland, Eisenstadt [AT_LGB_129] and the other in a private collection [PRIVATE_NONE-P441]. A further slightly later version now in the Museum Kurhaus Kleve [DE_MKK_FK-06-IX-Ia] is also worth mentioning within this context. However, the softer facial features are very close to a slightly earlier version without a feathered beret now in the Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen [DK_SMK_KMSsp726].

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  • Portrait of Sibylle of Cleve, after 1537

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