# Portrait of Elector John the Steadfast

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## Artwork

- Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Elder](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-elder-r9182bd445f259a>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Oil on panel, 13 x 15 cm

## Commentary

This small panel is one of the several portraits of John the Steadfast painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his studio. It was probably the right wing of a diptych, the left wing being a portrait of his brother Frederick the Wise. When the Elector Frederick the Wise died in 1525, Prince John the Steadfast succeeded him as Elector of Saxony and reigned until his death in 1532.

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- [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-elder-r9182bd445f259a/a-faun-and-his-family-with-a-slain-lion-detail-r100bea5a60de72>)
- [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>)
- [A Princess of Saxony](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-elder-r9182bd445f259a/a-princess-of-saxony-ra2aa6a7f685cf7>)
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- [Adam and Eve](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/cranach-lucas-the-elder-r9182bd445f259a/adam-and-eve-r8f1ac7afb0d246>)

## Attribution

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