Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515-86)
[George, Duke of Saxony] 1563
Woodcut with pen and ink border | 17.7 x 13.0 cm (backing sheet) | RCIN 609015.q
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Woodcut of George, Duke of Saxony. Half length with long beard, robes edged in fur, and Order of the Golden Fleece, with hands clasped. The print has been cut down to the outline of the sitter, and adhered to a secondary sheet of paper with a pen and ink border and a handwritten title below.
This print is from a series of thirty-four portraits of the rulers of Saxony from the ninth to the mid-sixteenth century by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586), all taken from Gabriel Schnellboltz's Illustrissimorum Ducum Saxoniae praestantium sapientia, virtute et rerum fortiter ac utiliter gestarum gloria heroum vivae effigies (1563).
For the other portraits from this series see RCINs 609015.a-z, RCIN 609066, and RCIN 609869. -
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Medium and techniques
Woodcut with pen and ink border
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17.7 x 13.0 cm (backing sheet)
15.4 x 11.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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