Lukas Spielhausen

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Lukas Spielhausen
ArtistLucas Cranach the Elder
Year1532
MediumOil and gold on beech
SubjectLukas Spielhausen
Dimensions50.8 cm × 36.5 cm (20.0 in × 14.4 in)
LocationMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Accession1981.57.1

Lukas Spielhausen is a 16th-century portrait by German artist

beechwood, the painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.[1]

The subject can be identified as Lukas Spielhausen from the black-and-yellow striped dress of a member of the electoral court of Saxony and the initials JS on his signet ring. Spielhausen was by 1531 a lawyer in the state judicial curia under Johann the Constant and was approximately thirty-nine years old when the sitting took place.

The work is on view in the Metropolitan Museum's Gallery 643.

References

  1. ^ "Lukas Spielhausen". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-10-16.