File:Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Johann der Beständige, Kurfürst von Sachsen.jpg

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Johann I (1468–1532), the Constant, Elector of Saxony

Artist



Alternative names	Lucas Cranach
Description	-German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death	4 October 1472	16 October 1553
Location of birth/death	Kronach	Weimar
Work location	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file	: Q191748 VIAF: 49268177 ISNI: 0000000121319721 ULAN: 500115364 LCCN: n50020861 NLA: 35031951 WorldCat

Title

Johann I (1468–1532), the Constant, Elector of Saxony

Series title

Friedrich III (1463–1525), the Wise, Elector of Saxony

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Depicted people

John, Elector of Saxony

Date

from 1532 until 1533

Medium

oil on paper mounted on panel

Dimensions

height: 20.3 cm (7.9 in)

; width: 14.3 cm (5.6 in)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	Manhattan, New York City, United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 46″ N, 73° 57′ 48″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q160236 VIAF: 126238294 ISNI: 0000000419368761 ULAN: 500125157 LCCN: n79129629 NLA: 36247933 WorldCat

Current location

Gallery 643

Accession number

46.179.2 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Credit line

1946: given by Robert Lehman

Notes

English: The names of the sitters and laudatory poems are printed on pieces of paper and pasted down on the panels

References

Cranach Digital Archive

Source/Photographer

Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 436045)

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Inscription: Labeled (printed paper on panel): (upper left) Johans der Erst / Churfurst / und Herzog zu Sachssen.; (bottom) Nach meines [lieben bruders e]nd / Bleib auff m[i]r d[as ganz Regim]end. / Mit grosser sorg [und mancher fa]hr / Da der Bawr toll und [toricht w]ar. / Die auffrhur fast inn allem [land] / Wie gros fewer im wald [entbrand]. / Welches ich halff dempffen mit Gott / Der Deudsches land erret aus not. / Der Rotten geister feind ich war / Hielt im land das wort rein und klar / Gros drawen bittern hass und neid / Umb Gottes worts willen ich leid. / Frey bekand ichs aus herzem grund / Und personlich selbst ich da stund. / Vor dem Keisar vnd ganzen Reich / Von Fursten gschach vor nie des gleich / Solchs gab mir mein Gott besnnder / Und vor der wellt was ein wunder. / Umb land und leut [zu bringen] mich / Hofft beid freund vnd [feind ge]wislich. / Ferdnand zu Romisc[hm Konig] gmacht / Und sein wahl ich allein anfacht./ Auff das da[s] alte Recht bestund / Inn der gulden Bulen gegrund. / Wiewol das grossen zorn erregt / Mich doch mehr recht denn gunst beweg[t.] / Das hertz gab Gott dem Keisar zart/ Mein guter freund zu lezt er ward. / Das ich mein end ym frid beschlos / Wast sehr den Teuffel das verdros. / Erfarn hab ichs und zeugen thar / Wie uns die Schrifft sagt und ist war. / Wer Gott mit ernst vertrawen kan / Der bleibt ein unnerdorben man. / Es zurne Teuffel odder welt / Den sieg er doch zu lezt behelt. (On the death of my beloved brother / the whole job of ruling fell to me, / bringing much worry and considerable danger, / for the peasants were wild and foolish. / Violence flared throughout my country / like a great forest fire, / which I helped to quench with God, / who rescued German territory from its misery. / I was an enemy of the leaders of the rabble / and kept the Word pure and undefiled in my land. / I had to suffer dire threats, bitter hatred, and envy / for the sake of God's word. / I professed it freely from the bottom of my heart, / and I myself took a stand / before the emperor and the entire realm. / No prince had ever done such a thing before. / My God gave me alone that role, / and it was a marvel to the world. / Friend and foe alike sought to rob me / of my land and and people, to be sure, / and made Ferdinand [ Ferdinand I, 1503-1564] king of the Romans. / I alone opposed his election, / hoping to ensure that authority might continue / to be based on the Golden Bull of old. / Though this occasioned great wrath, / I acted according to what was right rather than out of partiality. / God gave the emperor a kind heart, / and in the end he became my friend / so that I ended my days in peace-- / Much to the Devil's dismay. / I have seen it myself, and I assure you / that as the scriptures tell us--and it is true-- / the man who can truly trust in God / will never be defeated. / The Devil and the world may rage all they will, / yet his is the victory in the end.) -------------------------------------------------- Provenance [D. Heinemann, Munich, until 1929; sold to Lehman]; Robert Lehman, New York (1929–46)

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