The Flight into Egypt

The Flight into Egypt

Title

The Flight into Egypt

[CDA 2011]

Painting on limewood (Tilia sp.)

Medium

Painting on limewood (Tilia sp.)

[Klein, Report 2013]
[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Copy after the version in Berlin, which is dated '1504' and signed with the monogram 'LC' (Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Gemäldegalerie, no. 564 A), FR010

Attribution
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Exhib. Cat. Vienna 2022, no. 28] [Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Production dates
about 1600 or later?
about 1515 - 1520

Production dates

about 1600 or later?

[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

about 1515 - 1520

[Exhib. Cat. Vienna 2022, no. 28]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 71.1 (l) 71.9 (r) x 50.9 (t) 50.8 (b) cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 71.1 (l) 71.9 (r) x 50.9 (t) 50.8 (b) cm

  • (thinned and cradled)

  • Dimensions of painted surface: 71.1 (l) 71.9 (r) x 50.9 (t) 50.8 (b) cm

  • Dimensions including frame: 83.7 x 62.9 x 6.5 cm

  • [Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Signature / Dating

None

Inscriptions and Labels

Reverse of the panel/cradle: - on the vertical batten, top right:
paper label, printed: 'Dépôt Niederl. (Niederl. durchgestrichen, handschriftlich …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel/cradle: - on the vertical batten, top right:

  • paper label, printed: 'Dépôt Niederl. (Niederl. durchgestrichen, handschriftlich ergänzt: 'Prag. Inventar. 99. 747. Mechel Bald. Grien' (?)

    • on the vertical batten, bottom right:
  • black paint, stencilled: 'Doppeladler P.99'

    • on the vertical batten, bottom right:
  • inventory label (trimmed): 'Gemälde Galerie des Allerh. Kaiserhauses No.3561'

    • on the horizontal batten, bottom right:
  • stamp 'GJ 1949'

    • on the reverse of the panel, bottom right:
  • square paper label with a stamp: 'Doppeladler mit Krone, C VI'

    • on the horizontal batten, bottom right:
  • inscription in pencil: 'No. ..(?)'

  • [Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Owner
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Repository
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Location
Vienna
CDA ID
AT_KHM_GG3561
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/AT_KHM_GG3561/

Provenance

  • possibly the painting referred to as 'Maria Kindl, dorbey viel Engl' in the Prague inventory A of 1648 (Dudík 1867, XXXVIII, Nr. 77)
    [Exhib. Cat. Vienna 2022, no. 28]
  • 1737, first (definite) record in the imperial gallery (kaiserliche Galerie) in Prague
    [Inventar 1737, no. 1420]: 'Die Mutter Gottes sambt Jesu, sanct Joseph und etliche engeln. Lucas Krannach'

[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2011]

Exhibitions

Vienna 1972, no. 33
Vienna 2022, no. 28

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Vienna 2022 132, 133, 147 028 Fig. p. 132
EditorGuido Messling, Kerstin Richter
TitleCranach. Die Anfänge in Wien [Winterthur, Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, 12.03-12.06.2022; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 21.06-16.10.2022]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2022
Exhib. Cat. Vienna 1972 No. 33
AuthorKarl Schütz
EditorKunsthistorisches Museum, Wien
TitleLucas Cranach der Ältere und seine Werkstatt. Jubiläumsausstellung museumseigener Werke 1472-1972
Place of PublicationVienna
Year of Publication1972
  • The Flight into Egypt, about 1600 or later?

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Technical studies

08.04.2013Scientific analysis

  • Identification of wood species / Dendrochronology

Support

Identification of wood species: limewood (Tilia sp.)

  • analysed by Peter Klein

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