File:Brooklyn Museum - Portrait of John the Steadfast Elector of Saxony - Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder.jpg

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anonymous: Portrait of John the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony  wikidata:Q116963010 reasonator:Q116963010
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Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Weimar
Work location
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1774,Q191748
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
German:
Bildnis Johann der Beständige, Kurfürst von Sachsen Edit this at Wikidata

label QS:Lde,"Bildnis Johann der Beständige, Kurfürst von Sachsen"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1532
date QS:P571,+1532-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 18.6 cm (7.3 in); width: 14.2 cm (5.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,18.6U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,14.2U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history (Possibly) Paul Mersch, Paris; his sale; Hotel Druôut, Paris, 8 May 1908, lot 24, as Lucas Cranach the Elder
A. Chatain, Chicago, from whom acquired in 1912 by Watson Bradford Dickerman
by whom bequeathed to his wife Mrs. Watson Bradford Dickerman
by whom gifted to The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1949, no. 49.231
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 31 January 2013, lot 253
sale Christie's, Amsterdam, 23 - 24 June 2015, lot 15
Exhibition history 1949 - ca. 2012/13 Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, Invt.-Nr. 49.231
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serpent (with elevated wings)
Text bottom:
IMMORTALE DVCVM DECVS HAC SVB IMAGINE LUCAS / PINXT IOANNEM SAXONI TERRA TIBI ? / SIC DE SE MERTO TVLIT HVNC RITESELLVS HONORE / HVIVS ID EXEMPLVM POSTERITATIS ERIT ?
Notes FR (1978) Nr. -
References Brooklyn Museum via WebArchive
Sotheby's New York, 2013
Christie's Amsterdam, 2015
Cranach Digital Archive
Corpus Cranach
Source/Photographer Online Collection of Brooklyn Museum; Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 49.231_print_bw.jpg
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