Portrait of Martin Luther, 1772

Title

Portrait of Martin Luther

Draughtsman

• Pierre Jean Paul de Berny

Period Produced

• 18th century

School

• Late Baroque

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• paper

Technique

• pen drawing

Geographic Reference

• French

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• study after a painting?
• study after a print?
• preliminary drawing for a print?

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert, datiert und bezeichnet unten (mit der Feder in Schwarz): Fait à la Plume d'après le Portrait Original. Par Le Chevalier De Berny Capitaine. 1772.; bezeichnet mittig: MARTINUS - LUTHERUS - THEOL - PERTENDENS; unter dem Porträt: né l'an 1483. mort l'an 1546; darunter: Juppiter ut Titanas obaimatosque Gigantas / Quondam dejecit fulmine flammivomo., / Sic tu Pontifices Tiberinos, Save Luthere, / Prostasti tonitcu non inbibende fero. / Quis Sibi non Saliûm metuit? tuus balitus ignis, / Vox fulmen, calamus Grando cor AEtna fuit.

Captions Added Later

Verso unten rechts Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• C I Honig und Wappen mit Lilie [Fragment]

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• portrait

Persons Shown

• Martin Luther

Primary

• 61B2(+53) historical persons (+ half-length portrait)
• 48A98134(+2) ornament ~ other curved forms (+ framing decorations)
• 49L12 Roman script; scripts based on the Roman alphabet