The Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes

The Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes

Titles

The Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes

[CDA 2010]

The Virgin with a bunch of grapes in front of a curtain

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 103, No.163]

Painting on beech wood (Fagus sylvatica)

Medium

Painting on beech wood (Fagus sylvatica)

[Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011, 136, No. 1023]
[Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010]
[Klein, Report 1992]

The Virgin sits in front of a landscape clothed in a red robe with a blue coat. She holds a bunch of grapes in her right hand. With her left hand she supports the neck of the Child, who stands on her left knee and gives his mother single grapes.

The Virgin sits in front of a landscape clothed in a red robe with a blue coat. She holds a bunch of grapes in her right hand. With her left hand she supports the neck of the Child, who stands on her left knee and gives his mother single grapes. Behind them two cherubs hold up a cloth.

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010][Sandner 1998 B, 143]

Production date
about 1525

Production date

about 1525

[Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011, 136, No. 1023] [Sandner 1998 B, 89]
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1978, 102, No. 163]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 60.5 x 42.6 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 60.5 x 42.6 cm

  • [Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010]

  • [Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011, 136, No. 1023]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia on the bottom left: winged serpent with elevated wings

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia on the bottom left: winged serpent with elevated wings

  • [Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010]

  • [Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011, 136, No. 1023]

  • [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 103, No. 163]

Owner
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Repository
Fränkische Galerie, Kronach
Location
Kronach
CDA ID
DE_BStGS_1023
FR (1978) Nr.
FR163
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_BStGS_1023/

Provenance

  • 1824 acquired as a gift from King Max I. Joseph
    [Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, revised 2010]
    [Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011, 136, No. 1023]

Exhibitions

Kronach 1994, No. 153

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Brinkmann 2017 A 93-94
AuthorBodo Brinkmann
TitleDie Cranach-Forschung im digitalen Zeitalter - Von Friedländer/Rosenberg zum Cranach Digital Archive
Publicationin Gunnar Heydenreich, Daniel Görres, Beat Wismer, eds., Lucas Cranach der Ältere. Meister - Marke - Moderne. [Exhib. Cat. Düsseldorf 2017]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2017
Pages92-96
Exhib. Cat. Prague 2016 108, 109
EditorOlga Kotková
TitleCranach. Ze všech stran. From all sides.
Place of PublicationPrague
Year of Publication2016
Pages16-180
Noble 2015 293, Fn. 18
AuthorBonnie Noble
TitleThe Woman of Babylon. Seduction Reformation-Style
Publicationin Elke A. Werner, Anne Eusterschulte, Gunnar Heydenreich, eds., Lucas Cranach der Jüngere und die Reformation der Bilder
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
Pages290-297
Sandner, Heydenreich, Smith-Contini 2015 131, Fn. 21
AuthorGunnar Heydenreich, Ingo Sandner, Helen Smith-Contini
TitleVeränderungen beim Unterzeichnen in Cranachs Werkstatt und die Arbeitsweise von Sohn Lucas
Publicationin Elke A. Werner, Anne Eusterschulte, Gunnar Heydenreich, eds., Lucas Cranach der Jüngere und die Reformation der Bilder
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
Link https://lucascranach.org/application/files/5215/6337/7366/Heydenreich_Sandner_Smith-Contini_2015_-_Unterzeichnung.pdf
Pages128-141
Exhib. Cat. Munich 2011 136 No. 1023
AuthorMartin Schawe
EditorBayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
TitleCranach in Bayern
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2011
Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010 146-147 76
EditorBozarbooks & Lannoo, Guido Messling
TitleDie 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 PublicationBrussels
Year of Publication2010
Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007 246-247 63 p. 247
EditorBodo Brinkmann
TitleCranach der Ältere, [Frankfurt, Städel Museum, 23 Nov 2007 - 17 Feb 2008]
Place of PublicationOstfildern
Year of Publication2007
Exhib. Cat. Eisenach 1998 142-143 No. 16.2 Fig. 16.2
EditorWartburg-Stiftung, Eisenach, Fachhochschule , Ingo Sandner
TitleUnsichtbare 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 PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication1998
Pages229-240
Sandner 1998 B 89
AuthorIngo Sandner
TitleCranach als Zeichner auf dem Malgrund
Publicationin Ingo Sandner, Wartburg-Stiftung Eisenach and Fachhochschule Köln, eds., Unsichtbare Meisterzeichnungen auf dem Malgrund. Cranach und seine Zeitgenossen, Exhib. Cat. Eisenach
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication1998
Pages83-95
Exhib. Cat. Kronach 1994 331, 332 153
EditorClaus Grimm, Johannes Erichsen, Evamaria Brockhoff
TitleLucas Cranach. Ein Maler-Unternehmer aus Franken [Festung Rosenberg, Kronach 17.05 - 21.08.1994; Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig 07.09 - 06.11.1994]
SeriesVeröffentlichungen zur bayerischen Geschichte und Kultur
Volume26
Place of PublicationAugsburg, Coburg
Year of Publication1994
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 103 No. 163 Fig. 163
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
  • The Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes, about 1525

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10.12.2008Technical examination / Scientific analysis

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Light microscopy, SEM / EDX, HPLC

Cross-section examination:

Sample No.: PO5/1

Sample location: 16.6 cm from bottom/0.2 cm from the right

Brief description of paint: red

Description:

1. White ground: SEM/EDX: O, Ca (chalk)

2. Red layer(s): comment: in the backscattering image three discrete and very thin layers (in UV all dark) can be distinguished in the cross-section that is only 5.5 µm thick. The lower one could be an isolating layer consisting of organic material; SEM/EDX(bottom): O, Ca, Fe, Na, Si, Al, Cl, K, S, Mg, Pb, Cu, [P, Mn]; SEM/EDX (top): O, Fe, Si, Al, Mn, P, Ca, S, [K]; HPLC: the sample was placed in a 20 µl BF³/MeOH [5%] solution and left overnight. An octadecyl column (Type C18: Hyperclone 5 u ODS [C18] 100 x 2.00 mm 5 micron, Phenonemex) was used for the separation method. The phase was a mixture of (a) distilled water with 10% MeOH, (B) MeOH and (C) 2% solution of formic acid in water(60:30:10, isocratic for 2 min). The ratio was changed within 23 mins to 0:90:10, this was maintained for c. 10 mins and within 2 min returned to 60:30:20. The flow rate was 0.175 ml/min. Retention time [Rt=20.0 min] and the UV-Vis-Spectrum of the peaks [Absmax=248, 280, 430) identified alizarin, and purpurin [Rt=24.0 min, Absmax=257, 295, 480, 520 nm) in very small quantities. (red ochre [containing Mn], madder lake [alizarin, Al-, large quantity of P, small amount of S], chalk

Comment:

The lake particle appears dark in UV. The percentage of phosphorous is very high; the Al:P ratio was always c. 1.5-2 [in At%). It could therefore be kermes or cochenille. HPLC analysis could not confirm this. The chromatogram did exhibit a peak at Rt =14.63 min – a retention time characteristic for carminic acid – however the concentration is too small to be able to identify it on the corresponding UV/Vis-spectrum. No glass or quartz particles were found.

  • analysed by Cornelia Tilenschi
  • analysed by K. Lutzenberger
  • analysed by H. Stege

01.06.1992Scientific analysis

  • Identification of wood species / Dendrochronology

Support

- earliest felling date: 1520; earliest date of production: 1522

[Martin Schawe, Alte Pinakothek Munich, 26.03.2010]

  • analysed by Peter Klein

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