Saint Helena with the Cross

Saint Helena with the Cross

Titles

Saint Helena with the Cross

[Cincinnati Art Museum, revised 2016]

St. Helena, Mother of Constantine the Great

(found in file) [Cincinnati Art Museum, revised 2016]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Cincinnati Art Museum, revised 2016]

Beech wood

[Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 232]

A woman dressed in the fashion of sixteenth-century Germany is shown three-quarter length. Wears a crown and holds a wooden cross. Wears heavy necklaces and an elaborately stitched dress.

[Cincinnati Art Museum, revised 2016]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Cincinnati Art Museum, revised 2016]

Production date
1525

Production date

1525

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 41 x 27 cm (16 1/8 x 10 5/8 in.)

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 41 x 27 cm (16 1/8 x 10 5/8 in.)

  • [Cincinnati Art Museum, revised 2016]

  • 40.8 x 27 cm

  • [Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 232]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia top right on the black background: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing left and dated '1525'

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia top right on the black background: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing left and dated '1525'

  • [cda 2016]

Inscriptions and Labels
  • on the recto: lower left section of the painting: '6Z' or '67' or '62' or '671' (thought to have …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

    • on the recto: lower left section of the painting: '6Z' or '67' or '62' or '671' (thought to have been added by Liechtenstein Gallery in late 19th c.)
    • on the verso of the panel:
  • Paris duty stamp number on label and in blue pencil '15585.'

  • [Cincinnati Art Museum, revised 2016]

Owner
Cincinnati Art Museum
Repository
Cincinnati Art Museum
Location
Cincinnati
CDA ID
US_CAM_1927-387
FR (1978) Nr.
FR164
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/US_CAM_1927-387/

Provenance

  • 1851 in the Fürstlich Liechtensteinischen Galerie, Vienna

  • acquired in 1927
    [Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007, 232]

  • Bequest of Mary M. Emery
    [Cincinnati Art Museum, revised 2016]

Exhibitions

Dresden 1899, No. 18
New York, 2004-2005
Frankfurt, 2007, No. 57
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2008

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 2007 232 No. 57 Plate p. 233
EditorBodo Brinkmann
TitleCranach der Ältere, [Frankfurt, Städel Museum, 23 Nov 2007 - 17 Feb 2008]
Place of PublicationOstfildern
Year of Publication2007
Cat. Cincinnati 1987 45 f. No. 14
AuthorMary Ann Scott
TitleDutch, Flemish and German Paintings in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries
Place of PublicationCincinnati
Year of Publication1987
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 No. 164
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 139
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
Siple 1930 334 Fig. p. 327
AuthorElla S. Siple
TitleNotes on the Emery Collection in the Cincinnati Museum
JournalBurlington Magazine
Issue56 [or 66]
Year of Publication1930
Pages330-336
Flechsig 1900 B Plate 81
AuthorEduard Flechsig
TitleTafelbilder Lucas Cranachs d. Ä. und seiner Werkstatt
Volume1, 2
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1900
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/flechsig1900tafeln
Exhib. Cat. Dresden 1899 018
EditorKarl Woermann
TitleDeutsche Kunstausstellung Dresden 1899. Abteilung Cranach-Ausstellung. Wissenschaftliches Verzeichnis der ausgestellten Werke
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1899
Link http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00002A2400000000
Schuchardt 1851 C No. 448
AuthorChristian Schuchardt
TitleLucas Cranach des Aeltern Leben und Werke. Zweiter Theil
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1851
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schuchardt1851bd2
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