Portrait medal of George the Bearded (duke of Saxony) (obverse); coat
Silver relief medal showing an elderly bearded man in an ornate collar, turned three-quarters to the left, with a lined face and a long flowing beard. A lettered inscription runs around the rim, and floral ornament fills the lower border.
Look closer: Inscription running along the upper rim, partly legible as 'SEMPER LAVS EIVS IN' and 'ORE MEO'.
- Artist
- Peter Flötner
- Date
- 1537
- Medium
- Silver
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 2671 × 2641 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1537).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975