# Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PISANELLO]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Black chalk and pen on paper, 314 x 307 mm ## Commentary The two portrait drawings of 1433 by Pisanello \(now in the Louvre\), depicting Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg \(1368-1437\), constitute the first datable portraits by the artist. Sigismund was one of the most tenacious rulers of Europe: margrave of Brandenburg \(1378\), king of Hungary \(from 1387\), king of the Romans \(from 1414\), king of Bohemia \(1419-20, 1436-37\), and Holy Roman Emperor \(1433-37\). The drawings testify the process by which Pisanello transformed a rapidly executed record of his sitter into a formal portrait suitable for a court. The drawings must have been made during Sigismund's two-year sojourn in Italy. ## Related artworks - [Alfonso of Aragon]() - [Alfonso of Aragon]() - [Annunciation]() - [Apes \(from the artist's sketchbook\)]() - [Apparition of the Virgin to Sts Anthony Abbot and George]() - [Borso d'Este]() - [Borso d'Este]() - [Bust of an Old Man]() - [Cecilia Gonzaga]() - [Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg]() - [Filippo Maria Visconti]() - [Filippo Maria Visconti]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()