Prince Johann is shown as a bust portrait close to the picture plane and facing right. His face, framed by a beard and dark brown hair, is shown in three-quarter profile. At the top left edge there are remnants of the date (1532) and the sitter's age ([?]8). He is
Prince Johann is shown as a bust portrait close to the picture plane and facing right. His face, framed by a beard and dark brown hair, is shown in three-quarter profile. At the top left edge there are remnants of the date (1532) and the sitter's age ([?]8). He is wearing a particularly costly black coat. The collar and parts of the coat are decorated with golden brocade-like material, which Cranach hs executed employing a metallic glaze singular amongst his oeuvre. Beneath the coat the sitter wears a white shirt with a high collar decorated with golden embroidery and a neckband with pearls. There is a signet ring bearing the Anhalt coat-of-arms on his index finger and he wears a pearl necklace across his chest.
[Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=202; accessed 25 March 2015]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz; http://museum-digital.de/san/index.php?t=objekt&oges=202; accessed 25 March 2015] |
- Production date
- 1532
Production date
1532 | [Remains of a dating] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 52 x 36.4 x 0.5 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 52 x 36.4 x 0.5 cm
[cda 2015]
- Signature / Dating
- at the top centre, right: barely legible date '[15]32' as well as further numbers beneath '[...]8'. This probably refers to the age of the sitter who would have been 28 in 1532.
Signature / Dating
- at the top centre, right: barely legible date '[15]32' as well as further numbers beneath '[...]8'. This probably refers to the age of the sitter who would have been 28 in 1532.
[cda 2015]
- Inscriptions and Labels
- beneath the date: remnants of a double-digit number: '[...]8' This probably refers to the age of the sitter …
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- beneath the date:
remnants of a double-digit number: '[...]8' This probably refers to the age of the sitter who would have been 28 in 1532.
[cda 2015]
- Owner
- Bundesland Sachsen-Anhalt
- Repository
- Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz, Gotisches Haus (The Gothic House)
- Location
- Wörlitz
- CDA ID
- DE_SA-KsDW_M17-2006
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SA-KsDW_M17-2006/
- beneath the date: remnants of a double-digit number: '[...]8' This probably refers to the age of the sitter …