Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony

Title

[cda 2021]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Expertise, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, 15.02.2021]

Posthumous portrait of the Elector in three-quarter profile turned to the left against a blue background, he wears a fur-trimmed coat and a black beret.

Attribution: Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[cda 2021]

Production date: about 1532 - 1533

Production date

about 1532 - 1533

[Expertise, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, 15.02.2021]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 13 x 13 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 13 x 13 cm
[Expertise, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, 15.02.2021]

Signature / Dating: None

Inscriptions and Labels

upper left edge: 'Iohans der Erst / Churfurst / vnd Herzog zu Sachssen'
lower half of the panel: pasted two-column …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

- upper left edge: 'Iohans der Erst / Churfurst / vnd Herzog zu Sachssen'
- lower half of the panel: pasted two-column letterpress, mostly damaged

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P523
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P523/

Provenance

private collection, Rheinland
Senger Bamberg Kunsthandel, 1995
Dr. Konrad Wiegand, Coburg, 1996
private collection, Germany, 2021
[Expertise, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, 15.02.2021]

Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony, about 1532 - 1533

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