Enveloped in a blue gown Christ kneels on a circular rocky plateau in the garden of Gethsemane awaiting the agony of the Passion. Full of fear he looks up to the left from where an angel descends towards him, bearing the very chalice, that Jesus refers to in Matthew 26,
Enveloped in a blue gown Christ kneels on a circular rocky plateau in the garden of Gethsemane awaiting the agony of the Passion. Full of fear he looks up to the left from where an angel descends towards him, bearing the very chalice, that Jesus refers to in Matthew 26, 42, when he asks his father if it could pass over him. The angel also carries the cross, symbolic of the Passion. In the foreground of the composition the sleeping apostles are shown, separated by a hedge. In addition to the young St John the grey haired figure of St Peter can be identified. In the distance the betrayal of Christ to the soldiers by Judas is visible.
[Görres, cda 2016]
- Attributions
-
Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attributions
| Lucas Cranach the Elder and Workshop | [Werner Schade, 03/01/2012] |
| Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder | Letter D. Koepplin to Christie's London 2005 and Uppsala Auktionskammare 2011 in the Archive D. Koepplin] |
- Production dates
- about 1520 - 1530
after 1537
Production dates
| about 1520 - 1530 | [Werner Schade, 03/01/2012] |
| after 1537 | 'contemporary copy or later' [Letter D. Koepplin to Uppsala Auktionskammare in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2011] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support:
Dimensions
Dimensions of support:
61.7 x 42.5 cm
[Letter Christie's London to D. Koepplin in the Archive D. Koepplin, 07.2005]
- Signature / Dating
None
- Owner
- Private Collection
- Repository
- Private Collection
- CDA ID
- PRIVATE_NONE-P071
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P071/
