Martin Luther (1483-1546) and Phillipp Melanchthon (1497-1560)
Martin Luther (1483-1546) and Phillipp Melanchthon (1497-1560)
- Artist
- Lucas Cranach the Younger
- Artist Dates
- 1515-1586
- Artist Nationality
- German
- Title
- Martin Luther (1483-1546) and Phillipp Melanchthon (1497-1560)
- Date
- 1558
- Medium
- oil on pearwood panel
- Dimensions
- 61.3 x 88.6 cm (24-1/8 x 34-7/8 in)
- K Number
- K2179
- Repository
- North Carolina Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- GL.60.17.65
- Notes
Provenance
Probably J. Rosenbaum, Berlin. [1] (Zacharius Max Hackenbroch [1884-1937]), Frankfurt-am-Main; Ludwig Rosenthal; (sold, Sotheby’s, London 24 April 1937, no. 108, as by Lucas Cranach the Younger); G. Reitlinger. [2] (David M. Koetser Gallery, New York);sold to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation on 14 January 1957; gift 1960 to North Carolina Museum of Art, no. GL.60.17.65. [1] Colin Eisler, in Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian, Oxford, 1977, p.41-42, suggests that this painting is the same as that with the same subject, signed and dated 1558, recorded by O. Thulin, 'Melanchthons Bildnis und Werk in zeitgenossischer Kunst', in Philipp Melanchthon - Forschungsbeiträgezur 400 Wiederkehr seines Todestages, Gottingen,1961, p. 190, as formerly owned by the antiquary J. Rosenbaum in Berlin. [2] Published in Sotheby's insert to catalogue of buyers' names and sale prices.