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Inscription: Labeled (printed paper on panel): (upper left) Johans der Erst / Churfurst / und Herzog zu Sachssen.; (bottom) Nach meines [lieben bruders e]nd / Bleib auff m[i]r d[as ganz Regim]end. / Mit grosser sorg [und mancher fa]hr / Da der Bawr toll und [toricht w]ar. / Die auffrhur fast inn allem [land] / Wie gros fewer im wald [entbrand]. / Welches ich halff dempffen mit Gott / Der Deudsches land erret aus not. / Der Rotten geister feind ich war / Hielt im land das wort rein und klar / Gros drawen bittern hass und neid / Umb Gottes worts willen ich leid. / Frey bekand ichs aus herzem grund / Und personlich selbst ich da stund. / Vor dem Keisar vnd ganzen Reich / Von Fursten gschach vor nie des gleich / Solchs gab mir mein Gott besnnder / Und vor der wellt was ein wunder. / Umb land und leut [zu bringen] mich / Hofft beid freund vnd [feind ge]wislich. / Ferdnand zu Romisc[hm Konig] gmacht / Und sein wahl ich allein anfacht./ Auff das da[s] alte Recht bestund / Inn der gulden Bulen gegrund. / Wiewol das grossen zorn erregt / Mich doch mehr recht denn gunst beweg[t.] / Das hertz gab Gott dem Keisar zart/ Mein guter freund zu lezt er ward. / Das ich mein end ym frid beschlos / Wast sehr den Teuffel das verdros. / Erfarn hab ichs und zeugen thar / Wie uns die Schrifft sagt und ist war. / Wer Gott mit ernst vertrawen kan / Der bleibt ein unnerdorben man. / Es zurne Teuffel odder welt / Den sieg er doch zu lezt behelt. (On the death of my beloved brother / the whole job of ruling fell to me, / bringing much worry and considerable danger, / for the peasants were wild and foolish. / Violence flared throughout my country / like a great forest fire, / which I helped to quench with God, / who rescued German territory from its misery. / I was an enemy of the leaders of the rabble / and kept the Word pure and undefiled in my land. / I had to suffer dire threats, bitter hatred, and envy / for the sake of God's word. / I professed it freely from the bottom of my heart, / and I myself took a stand / before the emperor and the entire realm. / No prince had ever done such a thing before. / My God gave me alone that role, / and it was a marvel to the world. / Friend and foe alike sought to rob me / of my land and and people, to be sure, / and made Ferdinand [ Ferdinand I, 1503-1564] king of the Romans. / I alone opposed his election, / hoping to ensure that authority might continue / to be based on the Golden Bull of old. / Though this occasioned great wrath, / I acted according to what was right rather than out of partiality. / God gave the emperor a kind heart, / and in the end he became my friend / so that I ended my days in peace-- / Much to the Devil's dismay. / I have seen it myself, and I assure you / that as the scriptures tell us--and it is true-- / the man who can truly trust in God / will never be defeated. / The Devil and the world may rage all they will, / yet his is the victory in the end.) -------------------------------------------------- Provenance [D. Heinemann, Munich, until 1929; sold to Lehman]; Robert Lehman, New York (1929–46)

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