# Portrait of the Cuspinian Family [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STRIGEL, Bernhard]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on softwood panel, 71 x 62 cm ## Commentary The inscription on the reverse of the panel gives detailed information on the sitters, in addition to Strigel's signature and the date of the painting \(October 1520\). According to the inscription the painting portrays the Viennese humanist Dr. Johannes Cuspinianus at the age of 48, with his second wife Agnes, aged 41, and his sons by his first marriage, Sebastian Felix, aged fifteen, and Nikolaus Chrysostomus, aged twelve \(they had eight children in all\). In 1502 Lucas Cranach the Elder painted <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/cranach/lucas\_e/11/02cuspi1.html'\)" href="/html/c/cranach/lucas\_e/11/02cuspi1.html">pendant portraits</a> of Cuspinianus and his first wife Anna. ## Related artworks - [Christ Taking Leave of His Mother]() - [Disrobing of Christ]() - [Holy Family]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of a Noble Man]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() - [Portrait of Conrad Rehlinger and his Children]() - [Portrait of Dr. Georg Thannstetter]() - [Portrait of Martha Thannstetter \(née Werusin\)]() - [Portrait of Sybilla von Freyberg \(born Gossenbrot\)]() - [St Ladislas Presents Wladislav II and his Sons to the Virgin \(detail\)]() - [St Ladislas Presents Wladislav II and his Sons to the Virgin]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()