CRANACH, Hans
(b. ca. 1513, Wittenberg, d. 1537, Bologna)

Travel sketchbook (folio 7r)

1536-37
Paper, 203 x 160 mm
Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover

Hans Cranach made himself the very sketchy drawing of a young man playing the lute. A sad occasion - possibly Hans Cranach's death - seems to have been the reason for the affirmation of friendship written by another hand in 1537 on the upper part of the folio.