Interior: the infant Jesus is shown in the foreground at the right on a straw covered crib, and surrounded by four angels. In the middle ground the Virgin kneels towards her child, while Joseph holds a candle and looks out at the viewer. The ox and ass are also present.
Interior: the infant Jesus is shown in the foreground at the right on a straw covered crib, and surrounded by four angels. In the middle ground the Virgin kneels towards her child, while Joseph holds a candle and looks out at the viewer. The ox and ass are also present. In the background two shepherds enter the ruin on a ladder.
Exterior: Jesus and his mother are represented here at the Marriage at Cana where Jesus turned the water into wine.
- Attributions
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Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/workshop-of-lucas-cranach-i-a-triptych-5277768-details.aspx; accessed 20.05.2019] |
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder | sold at Lempertz in 1968 as by 'A Master of the environs of Kulmbach, in the Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder' |
Matthes Cranach | [Erichsen 1994, 157] |
- Production dates
- about 1510 - 1512
about 1515 - 1520
Production dates
about 1510 - 1512 | [Erichsen 1994, 157] |
about 1515 - 1520 | [L. Meyer, W. Schade in: Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/workshop-of-lucas-cranach-i-a-triptych-5277768-details.aspx; accessed 20.05.2019] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 164.2 x 59.7 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 164.2 x 59.7 cm
[Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/workshop-of-lucas-cranach-i-a-triptych-5277768-details.aspx; accessed 20.05.2019]
- Signature / Dating
none
- Inscriptions and Labels
none
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
none
- Owner
- Private Collection
- Repository
- Private Collection
- CDA ID
- PRIVATE_NONE-P187c
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P187c/