German male costume of the first half of the 16th century from paintings by Lucas Cranach. Man wearing a cowl over doublet and skirts A; John of Saxony, 1519, wearing a multicoloured great coat with long sleeves B; man in breastplate, greaves over the knee under the skirts, and iron gauntlet 1524 C; and man with helmet, breastplate, chainmail collar, greaves over the knee under the skirts D; man in luxurious cape with candle watching a washerwoman E; and a man having his hair washed by three women F. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811-1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.