Lucas Cranach the Elder

Portrait of Martin Luther



Lucas Cranach the Elder - Portrait of Martin Luther



Lucas Cranach the Elder
Portrait of Martin Luther
1517
40.3 x 26.5 cm
Oil on beechwood panel
Signed with the winged serpent device and with traces of date centre left, and bears date upper left: 1517
Sale Sotheby's, New York, 1 February 2018


Provenance

Possibly Fürst Ludwig Kraft zu Oettingen-Wallerstein (1791-1870)
in the collections of the Fürsten zu Oettingen-Wallerstein, Kloster Maihingen, near Wallerstein, until at least 1948
Charles Frederic, Prince of Oettingen-Wallerstein, Haburg Castle, Bavaria
private collection, Switzerland, by the mid-twentieth century
thence by descent to the present owner
Sale Sotheby's, New York, 1 February 2018, nr. 9

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