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Portrait of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503-1554) by 
																	Lucas Cranach

Lucas Cranach the Elder

( German, 1472 - 1553 )

Portrait of John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503-1554)

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Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

24.72 in. (62.80 cm.) (height) by 15.63 in. (39.70 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Exhibited:

The Hague, Bachstitz Gallery, Exhibition of Primitiv Masters, October 1922, no. 18. Rotterdam, Museum, Meesterwerken uit vier eeuwen, 1400-1800, 25 June-15 October 1938, no. 28.

Literature:

C. Schuchardt, Lucas Cranach des Aeltern Leben und Werke, II, Leipzig, 1851, pp. 130-31, no. 415. M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach, Berlin, 1932, p. 78, no. 267. M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, London, 1978, p. 135, no. 333.

Provenance:

Christian Wilhelm Schweitzer (1781-1856), Minister of State, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1843-1848), Weimar, 1851. Joseph Neustätter, Vienna, c. 1880. with Galerie Helbing, Munich, 1922. with Kurt Bachstitz, The Hague. Fritz Gutmann, Heemstede (Haarlem) (1886-1944), purchased from the above 1922, until dispossessed in the Netherlands as a result of Nazi persecution. Private collection, United States. Returned to the heirs of Fritz Gutmann, 2018, pursuant to a settlement agreement between the parties which resolves any dispute over title.

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