Lot 15: Workshop of Lucas Cranach I (Kronach 1515-1586 Weimar)

Workshop of Lucas Cranach I (Kronach 1515-1586 Weimar) Portrait of John the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony (1468-1532) with monogram (upper right) oil on panel 18.6 x 14.2 cm. inscribed 'IMMORTALE DVCVM DECVS HAC SVB IMAGINE LUCAS / PINXT IOANNEM SAXONI TERRA TIBI ? / SIC DE SE MERTO TVLIT HVNC RITESELLVS HONORE / HVIVS ID EXEMPLVM POSTERITATIS ERIT ?' (lower centre)

18.6 x 14.2 cm.

New York, Duveen Brothers, Lucas Cranach, May 1960, no.1, as Lucas Cranach the Elder.

(Possibly) Paul Mersch, Paris; his sale; Hotel Druôut, Paris, 8 May 1908, lot 24, as Lucas Cranach the Elder. A. Chatain, Chicago, from whom acquired in 1912 by Watson Bradford Dickerman; by whom bequeathed to his wife Mrs. Watson Bradford Dickerman; by whom gifted to The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1949, no. 49.231. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 31 January 2013, lot 253, where bought by the father of the present owners.