Live Auction 5434Old Master Pictures
Lot 298

After Lucas Cranach I

Closed7 July 1995

Price Realised

GBP 2,875

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After Lucas Cranach I

Portrait of Phillip Melanchthon, seated small half length, in black costume

bears the winged serpent device and date '1533' (centre right)
oil on panel
8 x 6 1/8in. (20.2 x 15.6cm.)

Specialist note

The original, with its pendant portrait of Luther, is in the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, (M. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, London, 1978, p. 130, no. 314-5, illustrated).