Herod's banquet

Herod's banquet

Title

Herod's banquet

[CDA 2011]

Painting on beech wood (Fagus sp.)

Medium

Painting on beech wood (Fagus sp.)

[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Salome carries the decapitated head of John the Baptist in a dish to the table where Herod and his wife sit. Extensively cropped along the right edge.

[Karl Schütz, 2011]

Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Elder (and workshop)
Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Elder (and workshop)

[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Lucas Cranach the Younger

Lucas Cranach the Younger as workshop assistent to his father (D. Koepplin 1974)

Production date
1539

Production date

1539

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimension of support: 83.8 (l) 83.2 (r) x 80.3 cm (without bars)

Dimensions

  • Dimension of support: 83.8 (l) 83.2 (r) x 80.3 cm (without bars)

  • Dimensions of painted surface: 83.8 (l) 83.2 (r) x 80.3 cm

  • Dimensions including frame: 100.4 x 98.9 x 8.5 cm

  • (the panel has been thinned and cradled)

  • [Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia top edge, centre: winged serpent with dropped wings, facing left and dated '1539'; in yellow paint

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia top edge, centre: winged serpent with dropped wings, facing left and dated '1539'; in yellow paint

  • [Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Inscriptions and Labels

Reverse of the panel/cradle:

  • on the vertical batten, top right:
    paper label, 'Dépôt. Niederl.', handwritten amendment: 'Cranach d.J. Herodias Prag …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel/cradle:

    • on the vertical batten, top right:
  • paper label, 'Dépôt. Niederl.', handwritten amendment: 'Cranach d.J. Herodias Prag Inv.232 753'

    • on the vertical batten, bottom centre:
  • black paint, stenciled: 'Doppeladler P.232'

    • on the vertical batten, bottom right:
  • Inventory label: 'Gemälde Galerie des Allerh. Kaiserhauses No 3567'

    • on the reverse of the panel, bottom right:
  • stamp: 'GI 1949'

  • [Karl Schütz, 2011]

Owner
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Repository
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Location
Vienna
CDA ID
AT_KHM_GG3567
FR (1978) Nr.
FR366D
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/AT_KHM_GG3567/

Provenance

  • first recorded in 1737 in the imperial gallery (kaiserliche Galerie) in Prague
    [Inventar 1737]: 'Herodias mit dem haupt sanct Joannis des Täufers - Lucas Krannach'.
  • 1876 transferred from Prague to Vienna
  • 1894 first displayed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum

[Karl Schütz, 2011]

Exhibitions

Vienna 1972, No. 19

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974/1976 580, 582 479
AuthorDieter Koepplin, Tilman Falk
TitleLukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik
Volume1, 2
Place of PublicationBasel, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1974
Link http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-104522
  • Herod's banquet, 1539

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