Shown from the lap up, a young girl with pale, peachy skin and long, light brown hair wears a crimson-red dress with slashed, puffed sleeves and three large, gold-colored necklaces covering much of her chest in this vertical portrait painting. She sits with her body angled slightly to our left and, with her head tipped slightly forward, she looks off in that direction with slate-blue eyes under faint brows. Her long, wavy, golden-brown hair falls from her high forehead and lies loose around her shoulders. Her dress has bands of a floral pattern outlined in a lighter red against a ruby-red…
Gallery mode Full size at the museum

A Princess of Saxony

Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472 - 1553)

c. 1517

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 43.4 x 34.3 cm (17 1/16 x 13 1/2 in.) ; framed: 58.4 x 48.9 cm (23 x 19 1/4 in.)
Culture
German
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-R
Credit line
Ralph and Mary Booth Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the National Gallery of Art

More by Lucas Cranach the Elder

See all

More Northern Renaissance

See all