# Portrait of a Man with a Gold Embroidered Cap

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-elder-r9182bd445f259a/portrait-of-a-man-with-a-gold-embroidered-cap-r7855cb6e81659a>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Elder](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-elder-r9182bd445f259a>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil and gold on beech panel, 51 x 36 cm

## Commentary

The probable identification of the sitter is based on the coat of arms on the verso of the panel. He is Lukas Spielhausen. Born c. 1493 in Leipzig, he was a state lawyer in the state judicial curia under Johann the Constant, Elector of Saxony \(r. 1523-32\). He could have encountered Cranach, court painter to the Saxon electors, through his official duties in Torgau.

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- [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-elder-r9182bd445f259a/a-faun-and-his-family-with-a-slain-lion-re578372caaaf42>)
- [A Prince of Saxony](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-elder-r9182bd445f259a/a-prince-of-saxony-rb31a36fa7d2d15>)
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## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)