The Holy Family surrounded by Angels [the left wing of a Lady Altar]

Title

[cda 2011]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Klingen, Cat. Dessau 1996, Bd. 1, 25]

Reverse:

the Saxon ducal coat-of-arms on a black background

[Klingen, Cat. Dessau 1996, Bd. 1, 25]

Attributions: Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Exhib. Cat. Lübeck 2021, no. 30] [Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, revised 2011] [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 35] [Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1937, no. 20] [Hosäus 1883, 52, no. 1597] [Parthey 1863, Bd. I, 129]
Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop	doubts Lucas Cranach painted it himself [Swarzenski 1907, 50]
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Schuchardt 1851 A, Bd. II, 105ff., no. 452]

Production dates: 1510 - 1515
about 1509

Production dates

1510 - 1515	[Exhib. Cat. Lübeck 2021, no. 30] [Klingen, Cat. Dessau 1996, Bd. 1, 25]
about 1509	[Friedländer 1905, 9] [Swarzenski 1907, 50]
about 1510-1512	[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 36, No. 35] [Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1937, no. 20]
about 1512-1515	[Sandner 1998 B, 89] [Heydenreich 2007 A, 394]
1512-1515	[Exhib. Cat. Kronach 1994, No. 149]
about 1516	[Flechsig 1900 A, 93]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 78.1 x 29.8 x 0.8 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 78.1 x 29.8 x 0.8 cm
Dimensions including frame: 91 x 43.4 x 5.6 cm
[Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, revised 2011]

Signature / Dating: None

Inscriptions and Labels: Reverse of the panel: - above the coat-of-arms:
in blue, there is a marking visible beneath the coating

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

Reverse of the panel: - above the coat-of-arms:
in blue, there is a marking visible beneath the coating
[Großmann, unpublished examination report, 1999]
Reverse of the frame:
- top left:
remains of a paper label
- beside this:
feather in brown ink '236' (crossed out)
- beside this:
feather in brown ink 'Lucas Cranach'
- beside this:
circular stamp
- beside this:
'1597'
- bottom, centre:
brush in black '42'
- left of this:
damaged paper label 'Deutsches Museum [...][printed] /Dessau, Anhaltische Gem[...] / degalerie / Erziehung der Jungfrau / [typed] / 1937 [handwritten in pencil]'
[Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, revised 2011]

Owner: Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, Dessau
Repository: Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, Dessau
Location: Dessau

CDA ID: DE_AGGD_9
FR (1978) Nr.: FR035
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_AGGD_9/

Connected Works

Provenance

old ducal Inv. No. 1599, Joachim-Ernst-Stiftung
[Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, revised 2011]
since 1851 recorded in the Gotisches Haus in Wörlitz (library)
1998 transferred to the Anhaltischen Gemäldegalerie Dessau [1]
intermittently on loan to the Gotisches Haus in Wörlitz
[1][Melzer 2005, 54]
[Klingen, Cat. Dessau 1996, Bd. 1, 25]

Exhibitions

Erfurt 1903, no. 181
Berlin 1937, no. 20
Weimar, Wittenberg 1953, 21, no. 5
Weimar 1972, 38, 169, no. 6, Fig.
Kronach 1994, 164, 327, 328, no. 149
Frankfurt, London 2007/2008, no. 24
Brussels, Paris 2010/2011, no. 26
Lübeck 2021, no. 30

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Exhib. Cat. Lübeck 2021

216, 217

030

Fig. p. 217

Editor	Dagmar Täube
Title	Lucas Cranach der Ältere und Hans Kemmer. Meistermaler zwischen Renaissance und Reformation [Lübeck, St. Annen-Museum]
Place of Publication	Munich
Year of Publication	2021

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Exhib. Cat. Wörlitz 2015

120-121

Editor	Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz
Editing	Wolfgang Savelsberg
Title	Cranach im Gotischen Haus in Wörlitz, [Wörlitz, Gotisches Haus, 15 May - 4 Oct. 2015]
Series	Kataloge und Schriften der Kulturstiftung Dessau Wörlitz
Volume	35
Place of Publication	Munich
Year of Publication	2015

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Melzer 2015 B

153

Author	Reinhard Melzer
Title	Der Cranach-Bestand des Gotischen Hauses
Publication	in Kulturstiftung Dessau-Wörlitz, ed., Cranach im Gotischen Haus in Wörlitz, Exhib. Cat. Wörlitz
Place of Publication	Munich
Year of Publication	2015
Pages	149-162

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Exhib. Cat. Paris 2011

121, 158

026

Figs. pp. 120, 158

Editor	Guido Messling
Title	Cranach et son temps [Paris, Musée du Luxembourg]
Place of Publication	Paris
Year of Publication	2011

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Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010

121

pp. 120, 158

Editor	Bozarbooks & Lannoo, Guido Messling
Title	Die Welt des Lucas Cranach. Ein Künstler im Zeitalter von Dürer, Tizian und Metsys [anlässlich der Ausstellung "Die Welt des Lucas Cranach", Palast der Schönen Künste, Brüssel, 20. Oktober 2010 - 23. Januar 2011]
Place of Publication	Brussels
Year of Publication	2010

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Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007

166-167

p. 167

Editor	Bodo Brinkmann
Title	Cranach der Ältere, [Frankfurt, Städel Museum, 23 Nov 2007 - 17 Feb 2008]
Place of Publication	Ostfildern
Year of Publication	2007

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Heydenreich 2007 A

394

Fig. 52

Author	Gunnar Heydenreich
Title	Lucas Cranach the Elder
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Year of Publication	2007
Link	https://lucascranach.org/application/files/6116/2097/3099/Heydenreich_2007_Lucas_Cranach_the_Elder.pdf

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Melzer 2005

Author	Reinhard Melzer
Title	Cranach in Wörlitz. Das Gotische Haus als frühe Sammlungsstätte altdeutscher Malerei
Publication	in Harald Marx, Ingrid Mössinger, Karin Kolb, ed., Cranach. Exhib. Cat. Chemnitz
Place of Publication	Cologne
Year of Publication	2005
Pages	44-58

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Exhib. Cat. Eisenach 1998

145

No. 16.5

Editor	Wartburg-Stiftung, Eisenach, Fachhochschule , Ingo Sandner
Title	Unsichtbare Meisterzeichnungen auf dem Malgrund. Cranach und seine Zeitgenossen. Ausstellungskatalog und Tagungsband Katalogteil 1; 2: Werkstatt und Schüler Cranachs; 3: Süddeutsche Meister; 4: Albrecht Dürer und sein Kreis; 5: Rheinische Meister
Place of Publication	Regensburg
Year of Publication	1998
Pages	229-240

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Sandner 1998 B

Author	Ingo Sandner
Title	Cranach als Zeichner auf dem Malgrund
Publication	in Ingo Sandner, Wartburg-Stiftung Eisenach and Fachhochschule Köln, eds., Unsichtbare Meisterzeichnungen auf dem Malgrund. Cranach und seine Zeitgenossen, Exhib. Cat. Eisenach
Place of Publication	Regensburg
Year of Publication	1998
Pages	83-95

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Cat. Dessau 1996

25-27

No. 9

Fig. 8

Author	Stephan Klingen
Title	Die deutschen Gemälde des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Kritischer Bestandskatalog
Volume	1
Place of Publication	Weimar
Year of Publication	1996

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Exhib. Cat. Kronach 1994

327, 328, 371

149

Editor	Claus Grimm, Johannes Erichsen, Evamaria Brockhoff
Title	Lucas Cranach. Ein Maler-Unternehmer aus Franken [Festung Rosenberg, Kronach 17.05 - 21.08.1994; Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig 07.09 - 06.11.1994]
Series	Veröffentlichungen zur bayerischen Geschichte und Kultur
Volume	26
Place of Publication	Augsburg, Coburg
Year of Publication	1994

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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

No. 35

Fig. 35

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Editor	G. Schwartz
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Basel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1979

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Exhib. Cat. Weimar 1972 B

38, 169

No. 6

with Fig.

Editor	Schlossmuseum Weimar
Title	Lucas Cranach 1472-1553. Ein großer Maler in bewegter Zeit
Place of Publication	Weimar
Year of Publication	1972

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Exhib. Cat. Weimar, Wittenberg 1953

No. 5

Author	Walther Scheidig
Editor	Deutsche Lucas Cranach Komitee
Title	Lucas Cranach Ausstellung. Weimar und Wittenberg
Place of Publication	Weimar, Wittenberg
Year of Publication	1953

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Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1937

020

Pl. 27

Editor	Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Title	Lucas Cranach d. Ä. und Lucas Cranach d. J. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik
Place of Publication	Berlin
Year of Publication	1937

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Photoverzeichnis Marburg 1937

No. 77462

Author	n. a.
Title	Photoverzeichnis VII. Neuaufnahmen des Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars in Marburg aus den Anhaltischen Sammlungen
Journal	Jahrbuch des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft
Issue	Bd. 4
Year of Publication	1937
Pages	I-VIII

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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Berlin
Year of Publication	1932
Link	http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932

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Cat. Dessau 1929

No. 9

Author	Ludwig Grote
Title	Führer durch die Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie
Place of Publication	Dessau
Year of Publication	1929

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Cat. Dessau 1927

No. 9

Author	Ludwig Grote
Title	Führer durch die Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie
Place of Publication	Dessau
Year of Publication	1927

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Hartmann 1913

No. 1599

Author	Adolph Hartmann
Title	Der Wörlitzer Park und seine Kunstschätze
Place of Publication	Berlin
Year of Publication	1913

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Swarzenski 1907

49f.

Author	Georg Swarzenski
Title	Cranachs Altarbild von 1509 im Städelschen Kunstinstitut zu Frankfurt/M
Journal	Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst
Issue	2
Year of Publication	1907
Pages	49-65

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Friedländer 1905

Fig. 8

Author	Max J. Friedländer
Title	Die Tafelmalerei des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts
Publication	in Oscar Döring, Georg Voss, eds., Meisterwerke der Kunst aus Sachsen und Thüringen
Place of Publication	Magdeburg
Year of Publication	1905
Pages	3-18

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Exhib. Cat. Erfurt 1903

181

Editor	Oskar Doering
Title	Katalog der kunstgeschichtlichen Ausstellung zu Erfurt, September 1903
Place of Publication	Magdeburg
Year of Publication	1903
Link	https://archive.org/details/katalogderkunstg00ange/page/n1/mode/2up

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Flechsig 1900 A

Author	Eduard Flechsig
Title	Cranachstudien
Volume	1
Place of Publication	Leipzig
Year of Publication	1900
Link	page/n5/mode/2up

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Hosäus 1883

No. 1599

Author	Wilhelm Hosäus
Title	Worlitz. Ein Handbuch für die Besucher des Wörlitzer Gartens und der Wörlitzer Kunstsammlungen
Place of Publication	Dessau
Year of Publication	1883

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Parthey 1863-1864

685 (Bd. 1)

Author	Gustav Parthey
Title	Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichnis der in Deutschland vorhandenen Oelbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen
Volume	1, 2
Place of Publication	Berlin
Year of Publication	1864

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Schuchardt 1851 C

150-152

453

Author	Christian Schuchardt
Title	Lucas Cranach des Aeltern Leben und Werke. Zweiter Theil
Place of Publication	Leipzig
Year of Publication	1851
Link	http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schuchardt1851bd2

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The Holy Family surrounded by Angels [the left wing of a Lady Altar], 1510 - 1515

Images

Technical studies

27.11.2016Technical examination / Scientific analysis

X-radiography

04. 2010Technical examination / Scientific analysis

Infrared reflectography

Underdrawing

DESCRIPTION

Tools/Materials:

- pointed brush, in details also with a quill (?); fluid black pigmented medium; the broader lines were drawn with a brush, the thinner lines with a small pointed brush or in details with a quill (?)

Type/Ductus:

- detailed and freehand underdrawing

- broad, sketchy lines are combined with some thinner lines

Function:

- only roughly binding for the final painted version; the broader lines are used to define form and delineate contours, roughly indicating folds in the drapery; there is little representation of volume; the thinner lines are mainly visible in the face of Joseph and in the angel in the foreground on the left

Deviations:

- numerous minor alterations in the painted version to clearly define form

INTERPRETATION

Attribution:

- Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Smith, Sandner, Heydenreich, cda 2012]

photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich
photographed by Ingo Sandner

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