Half-length figure, nearly en face, head slightly turned to the right, standing behind a parapet, with brown, sparsley hair and short grey-white full beard. over a jerkin, opened at the neck he's wearing a black and furred overcoat, in both hands an open book. An inscription at parapet in Latin: CV of Melanchthon and below two Latin, incomplete verses. Light grey-green background. In right of the center bzw. with snake and 156. Schw. frame. Source: Hugo Helbing Kunsthandlung and Kunstversteigerungshaus: Kunstbesitz eines Berliner Sammlers. Katalog Nr. 49.
