Eve (fragment)

Title

Eve (fragment)

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 198F]

Painting transferred to wood

Medium

Painting transferred to wood

[Exhib. Cat. Wroclaw 2017, no. 21]

The fragment shows the head of Eve, facing left. At the edge of the panel the apple in her hand is just visible. Above her the serpent has coiled around one of the lower branches of the tree and is looking directly at her.

[cda 2023]

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Exhib. Cat. Wroclaw 2017, No. 21]

Production date: about 1531

Production date

about 1531

[Exhib. Cat. Wroclaw 2017, no. 21]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 52 x 44.4 cm (fragment)

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 52 x 44.4 cm (fragment)
[Exhib. Cat. Wroclaw 2017, no. 21]

Signature / Dating: None

Owner: Muzeum Narodowe we Wroclawiu
Repository: Muzeum Narodowe we Wroclawiu
Location: Wroclaw

CDA ID: PL_MNWr_VIII-2285
FR (1978) Nr.: FR198F
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PL_MNWr_VIII-2285/

Provenance

Herrn Kalau of Hofe, formerly Schwierse (Schlesien)
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 198F]
The Kalau family from Hofe, Schwierse/Schlesien; until 1945 on loan to the Silesian Museum of Art, Wrocław/Breslau; transferred to Danzig; 1945 Nationalmuseum Warschau (Inv.-Nr. 187122); 1970 Nationalmuseum Wroclaw (Breslau)
See also the entry in the Lost Art-database, Stiftung Deutsches Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste: Lost Art-ID 475055 [http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/475055; accessed 17 Dec. 2019]

Exhibitions

Wroclaw 2017, no. 21

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Exhib. Cat. Wroclaw 2017

136-137

021

Fig. p. 137

Editor	Ewa Houszka, Marek Pierzchala
Title	Moda na Cranacha, Muzeum Narodowe we Wroclawiu, 31.10.2017-30.12.2017
Place of Publication	Wroclaw
Year of Publication	2017

Show Literature

Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

109

198F

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

Show Literature

Connected Works

Eve (fragment), about 1531

Images

Condition Reports

1979Technologische Untersuchung / Naturwissenschaftliche Materialanalyse

Infrarot-Reflektografie

Unterzeichnung

BESCHREIBUNG

Zeichengeräte/Material:

- flüssiges dunkles Zeichenmedium, Pinsel; eventuell in zwei Schritten

Typ/Duktus:

- relativ sparsame, freie Unterzeichnung

- dünne bis etwas breitere Linien; gelegentlich suchend

Funktion:

- relativ verbindliche Vorgabe für die Malerei; Hauptkonturen, Binnenformen und Gesichtszüge sind angegeben; keine plastische Wiedergabe durch Schraffuren

Abweichungen:

- kleine Präzisierungen der Form während des Malprozesses; kleine Änderungen (z. B. in den Gesichtern und der Landschaft am unteren Bildrand)

INTERPRETATION

Zuschreibung:

- Lucas Cranach der Ältere oder Werkstatt (?)

Anmerkungen:

- freie Übertragung einer Vorlage

[Sandner, Smith-Contini, Heydenreich, cda 2017]

In the 17th cenury the painting was overpainted and converted into a portrait, more recently the overpaint has been removed.

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 198F]

[cda 2020]

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

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