Cupid with an Arrow

Cupid with an Arrow

Title

Cupid with an Arrow

[Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 95]

Painting on limewood

Medium

Painting on limewood

[Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 95]

The fragment depicts a full-length figure of Cupid as a winged, nude child standing precariously on a pedestal. His left leg is bent, the left arm is stretched upwards and he stands on the pedestal only supported by the right leg. In his right hand Cupid holds an arrow of

The fragment depicts a full-length figure of Cupid as a winged, nude child standing precariously on a pedestal. His left leg is bent, the left arm is stretched upwards and he stands on the pedestal only supported by the right leg. In his right hand Cupid holds an arrow of which only the fletching is visible. The pale flesh paint is in stark contrast to the black background.

[Görres, cda 2012]

Attributions
Heinrich Bollandt
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attributions

Heinrich Bollandt

[Schade, Exhib. Cat. Berlin 2009, 85]

Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger

[Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, revised 2011]

'Fragment of a workshop copy of the composition, which is preserved as an autograph work from about 1540 in the form of a depiction of Venus and Cupid by Lucas Cranach the Younger in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (No. 5465)"
[Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 95]

Production date
about 1620 - 1630

Production date

about 1620 - 1630

[Schade, Exhib. Cat. Berlin 2009, 85]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 85 x 40.5 x 1.4 cm (fragment, trimmed along the top and the right edges)

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 85 x 40.5 x 1.4 cm (fragment, trimmed along the top and the right edges)

  • [Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 95]

Signature / Dating

None

Inscriptions and Labels

Reverse of the panel: - centre:
remains of a red wax seal, probably the Baden-Saxon-Lauenburg allied coat-of-arms

  • on the right:

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel: - centre:

  • remains of a red wax seal, probably the Baden-Saxon-Lauenburg allied coat-of-arms

    • on the right:

  • white label:

  • 'Staatl. Kunsthalle Karlsruhe Standort: [1] 15 [2]'

    • beside the above:

  • yellow label witha black boarder:

  • 'Badisches Kunsthalle Karlsruhe [1]

  • Fot. [2]

  • Inv. Nr. [1] 810 Cranach-Werkst. [2]

  • Geprüft 1936 [last figure handwritten]

  • Amor m. Pfeil. [2]'

  • [1] printed

  • [2] handwritten

  • [Görres, cda 2012]

Owner
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Repository
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe
Location
Karlsruhe
CDA ID
DE_SKK_0810
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SKK_0810/

Provenance

  • transferred in 1890 from the collection of the Archduke. Formerly in the collection of the Margrave of Baden. In the castle of Rastatt (Inventory from 1772, fol. 200 v. mentions: "Gemähld auf Holz, worauf ein nacketes geflügeltes Kindlein, auf einem Vierecketen Stein. Von Albrecht Dürer." (a painting on wood, showing a winged, nude child on a stone cube. By Albrecht Dürer.))
    [Kircher 1949, 531][1]
    [Kircher 1955, 222, 228][1]
    It may be identical with No. 810.

  • the present panel corresponds more closely to the description of a painting in the inventory of the Margrave of Hofes from Basel, 1736 and 1773, No. 631: "Eine Nackendte Venus abermahls, auf einem felßigten Boden in Lebensgröße stehend, an der rechten Hand mit einem Braßelete geziert; neben welcher ein Cupido auf einem steinernen Cubo mit einem Fuß stehendt" (A nude Venus on stony ground, standing life-size, decorated with a bracelet on her right hand; beside her a Cupid standing with one foot on a stone cube). According to a notation in the inventory of 1799 this work was transferred to Karlsruhe and may later have been fragmented there.
    [1] [Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 95]

[Cat. Karlsruhe 1966, 95]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Berlin 2009 A 85
EditorStiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg
TitleCranach und die Kunst der Renaissance unter den Hohenzollern. Kirche, Hof und Stadtkultur
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication2009
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Schade 2009 85 Fig. 7
AuthorWerner Schade
TitleBollandt als Nachbildner Cranachs
Publicationin Stiftung Preußische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg, Evangelische Kirchengemeinde St. Petri-St. Marien, eds., Cranach und die Kunst der Renaissance unter den Hohenzollern: Kirche, Hof und Stadtkultur Exhib. Cat. Berlin
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication2009
Pages80-85
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Cat. Karlsruhe 1966 95
AuthorJan Lauts
TitleStaatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe. Katalog Alter Meister bis 1800
Volume1, 2
Place of PublicationKarlsruhe
Year of Publication1966
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Kircher 1955 222, 228
AuthorGerda Franziska Kircher
TitleDie Einrichtung des Rastatter Schlosses im Jahre 1772
JournalZeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins
IssueBd.103, N.F.64 (1955)
Year of Publication1955
Pages205ff.
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Kircher 1949 531
AuthorGerda Franziska Kircher
TitleNeue Forschungen zur Porträt- und Sammlungsgeschichte der Zähringer
JournalZeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins
Issue97 (NF 58), 1949
Year of Publication1949
Pages498
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Images

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Technical studies

07. 2011Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • Infrared reflectography
  • irr

Underdrawing

DESCRIPTION

Tools/Materials:

- dry drawing material, dark chalk

Type/Ductus:

- copied lines

- delicate, fine lines

Function:

- binding for the final painted version; lines delineate contours and describe essential details and the facial features; no representation of volume

Deviations:

- minor alterations made during the painting process to clearly define form

INTERPRETATION

Attribution:

- workshop repetition Lucas Cranach the Younger or later by Heinrich Bollandt?

Comments:

- probably after a pre-existing design or even transferred

[Smith, Sandner, Heydenreich, cda 2013]

  • photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich
  • photographed by Ingo Sandner

Versions

Venus and Cupid
  • Venus and Cupid, about 1620 - 1630
  • DE_BStGS_5465
  • Painting
  • Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Venus with a Tiara
  • Venus with a Tiara, about 1620 - 1630
  • DE_SKK_0124
  • Painting
  • Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

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