Portrait of Emperor Maximilian and his family

The Portrait of Emperor Maximilian and his family was commissioned by the Viennese court official Johannes Cuspinian and executed by Bernhard Strigel in 1515, with documentation indicating it was completed after 24 March 1516. The work, painted in oil on panel and limewood, measures 72.8 × 60.4 cm and depicts the imperial family including Maximilian I, Ferdinand I, Charles V, Philip I of Castile and Mary of Burgundy. It is the only signed portrait by Strigel and qualifies as a group or family portrait.

Following its creation, the painting entered the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where it remains on display.

The painting is held by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, where it is on display. According to the museum's object database, it is catalogued under the title "Familie des Kaisers Maximilian I. (1459-1519)". The work was originally owned by Johannes Cuspinian, who commissioned it, before entering the museum's collection.

A late-eighteenth-century replica of the painting is exhibited at the Strigel Museum in Memmingen, housed in the former Antoniterkloster. The replica follows Strigel's typical compositional scheme but does not approach the original artistically; its colors are partially altered, the figures are rendered more schematically, and it includes additional elements such as an inscription on the parchment scroll held by Ludwig and a rose in Ferdinand's right hand, none of which appear on the original.

Bernhard Strigel, a painter from the Swabian school, completed this oil painting in 1515. Titled "Portrait of Emperor Maximilian and his family," it is a significant work of the Northern Renaissance. The composition features Maximilian I, the Holy Roman Emperor, alongside several of his notable descendants. This formal group portrait is currently housed in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.