Lucas CranachGerman, 1472–1553Jakobsladder
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-P-OB-21.728
What it shows
Sources
- Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 3 days ago
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
Meanwhile, in the life of Lucas Cranach
The whole life1505–1547
Post: court painter
1515–1520
First Woodcuts
Between 1515 and 1520 he created his first woodcuts, some of which, like Dürer, he sold himself.
1519–1520
Treasurer of the Wittenberg Council
He first held the office of treasurer on the Wittenberg council, a post he subsequently occupied several times until 1535.
1520
First Engraved Portrait of Luther
Cranach made the first engraved portrait of Martin Luther, then still an Augustinian monk; eleven of his portraits of the reformer survive in all.
1520
Daughter born: Anna Pfreundt
1522
Publication of Luther's September Testament
Together with his business partner, the goldsmith Christian Döring, he was responsible for publishing the September Testament — Luther's translation of the Bible with illustrations by Cranach.
