After Lucas Cranach I

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After Lucas Cranach I

Portrait of Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony, small half length

oil on panel
unframed
21¼ x 17½in. (54 x 44.5cm.)

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The original, which formed the middle panel of a triptych showing the three Electors of Saxony, with Johann the Steadfast turned to the right, against a landscape, is in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg (see M. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, London, 1978, p. 135, no. 338, illustrated).

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