The fragment shows a full-length figure of Cupid as a winged, nude child. His head is bent back slightly and he has raised his left hand to his forehead in an attempt to ward off the bees, that swarm around him. He still holds the honeycomb in his right hand.
The fragment shows a full-length figure of Cupid as a winged, nude child. His head is bent back slightly and he has raised his left hand to his forehead in an attempt to ward off the bees, that swarm around him. He still holds the honeycomb in his right hand. Cupid stands on a narrow strip of ground and the tree from which he has taken the honeycomb is visible behind him.
[Görres, cda 2012]
- Attributions
-
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attributions
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Heydenreich, cda 2011] |
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 91] |
- Production dates
- about 1600 or later
1531
Production dates
about 1600 or later | [Heydenreich, cda, 2011] |
1531 | [Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 91] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 76.5 x 28 x 0.8-2 cm (fragment)
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 76.5 x 28 x 0.8-2 cm (fragment)
[Heydenreich, cda 2011]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia, centre left: winged serpent and dated '1531' above [not genuine]
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia, centre left: winged serpent and dated '1531' above [not genuine]
[Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 91]
- Inscriptions and Labels
Reverse of the panel: - centre, left:
remains of a red wax seal, probably the Baden-Saxon-Lauenburg allied coat-of-arms- below:
yellow …Inscriptions and Labels
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
Reverse of the panel: - centre, left:
remains of a red wax seal, probably the Baden-Saxon-Lauenburg allied coat-of-arms
- below:
yellow label with a black boarder:
'Badisches Kunsthalle Karlsruhe [1]
Fot. [2]
Inv. Nr. [1] 811 Cranach-W. [2]
Geprüft 1936 [last figure handwritten]
Amor als Honigdieb [2]'
- beside the above, on the right:
white label with a black boarder:
'Staatl. Kunsthalle Karlsruhe Standort: [1] 15 [2] [crossed out] Wand 3'
[1] printed
[2] handwritten
[Görres, cda 2012]
- Owner
- Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
- Repository
- Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
- Location
- Karlsruhe
- CDA ID
- DE_SKK_0811
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SKK_0811/
- below: