Lukas Spielhausen
Lukas Spielhausen | |
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Artist | Lucas Cranach the Elder |
Year | 1532 |
Medium | Oil and gold on beech |
Subject | Lukas Spielhausen |
Dimensions | 50.8 cm × 36.5 cm (20.0 in × 14.4 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Accession | 1981.57.1 |
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
- ^ "Lukas Spielhausen". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-10-16.