Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures
Old Master Paintings and Portrait Miniatures
After Lucas Cranach the Elder
Portrait of Martin Luther (1483–1546)
Lot Closed
April 28, 01:18 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
After Lucas Cranach the Elder
Portrait of Martin Luther (1483–1546)
bears the serpent device and date lower left: 1525
oil on paper laid down on oak panel, circular, unframed
unframed diameter: 11.5 cm.; 4½ in.
A later copy after Cranach's roundel portrait of the Reformer, Martin Luther, which is known in a number of versions. The present painting comes closest to the autograph work in the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, which forms a pendant with another roundel depicting Luther's wife, Katharina von Bora, dated 1525, the year of their marriage.1 Other versions are in Basel,2 Wittenberg,3 and Nördlingen.4
1 https://www.themorgan.org/objects/item/156776
2 https://lucascranach.org/CH_KMB_177