Lot Essay
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).