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Currently not on display

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Kronach, 1472 - Weimar, 1553

Saxon Prince on Horseback with the Coburg Castle in the background

Date 1506
Materials and Techniques Woodcut
Size(cm) 18.1 x 12.5
State 2nd state (of 2)
Standard ref. Bartsch 116; Geisberg 627; Hollstein 110 second state (of two); Koepplin and Falk 20; Andersson/Talbot 119
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2014-0001

Provenance

P. Gervaise, Paris (inscribed and dated 1860 by Mariette; see Lugt 1078); Adalbert Freiherr von Lanna, Prague (Lugt 2773); C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf (stock no. 5815); Dr. Wolfgang Lippisch, Munich (acquired February 1964); Purchased by NMWA, 2014.

Exhibition History

2016
Lucas Cranach the Elder: 500 Years of the Power of Temptation, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 15 October 2016 - 15 January 2017, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 28 January-16 April, cat. no. 13, col. repr.

Bibliography

1974
Lukas Cranach: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik (exh. cat.). Koepplin, Dieter; Falk, Tilman, eds. Kunstmuseum Basel, 15 June - 8 September 1974. Basel, Birkhäuser, 1974, vol. 1, no. 20.
1983
From a Mighty Fortress: Prints, Drawings, and Books in the Age of Luther 1483-1546 (exh. cat.). Andersson, Christiane; Talbot, Charles, eds. The Detroit Institute of Arts, 3 October - 22 November 1981; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 4 December 1981 – 31 January 1982; Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, 18 July – 5 August 1982. [Detroit], Detroit Institute of Arts, 1983, no. 119.
2016
Lucas Cranach the Elder: 500 Years of the Power of Temptation (exh. cat.). Messling, Guido; Shinfuji Atsushi, eds. Tokyo, TBS Television, 2016, pp. 62-63, 280, cat. no. 13, col. repr.
2016
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 49 (Apr. 2014-Mar. 2015), 2016, List of New Acquisitions. p. 26.

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