These companion portraits have been identified as Moritz Buchner and his wife, Anna Lindacker Buchner. As a successful merchant and city alderman, Moritz Buchner was representative of the newly affluent middle class that resulted from the growth of capitalism in 16th-century Germany. Lucas Cranach, the court artist to Frederick III
These companion portraits have been identified as Moritz Buchner and his wife, Anna Lindacker Buchner. As a successful merchant and city alderman, Moritz Buchner was representative of the newly affluent middle class that resulted from the growth of capitalism in 16th-century Germany. Lucas Cranach, the court artist to Frederick III of Saxony, was commissioned by the Buchners to paint their likenesses for posterity. Here, Cranach captures the confidence, pride, and ambition that often accompany newly acquired wealth and improved social status. Cranach's signature, a winged serpent, and the date of the painting appear on the extreme left of Moritz's portrait.
[Mia online database, accessed 28.06.2022]
Reverse of the panel:
- coats of arms of the families Buchner and Lindacker (?)
[Minneapolis Institute of Arts, revised 2012]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Production dates
- about 1520
1518
Production dates
about 1520 | [Minneapolis Institute of Arts, revised 2012] |
1518 | [dated] [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 127] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 40.6 x 27.3 x 0.5 cm (16 x 10 3/4 x 3/16 in.)
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 40.6 x 27.3 x 0.5 cm (16 x 10 3/4 x 3/16 in.)
[Minneapolis Institute of Arts, revised 2012]
Dimensions of support: 40 x 27 cm
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 127]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia above the sitter's proper right shoulder: winged serpent with elevated wings facing right and dated '1518'; in yellow paint
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia above the sitter's proper right shoulder: winged serpent with elevated wings facing right and dated '1518'; in yellow paint
- Inscriptions and Labels
- on the ring on the index finger of the sitter's proper left hand: 'M[B]'
[http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/1796/portrait-of-moritz-buchner (accessed 21.05.2012)]
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- on the ring on the index finger of the sitter's proper left hand:
'M[B]'
[http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/1796/portrait-of-moritz-buchner (accessed 21.05.2012)]
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 127]
- Owner
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Repository
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- Location
- Minneapolis
- CDA ID
- US_MIA_57-11
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR127
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/US_MIA_57-11/
- on the ring on the index finger of the sitter's proper left hand: 'M[B]'