Right half of a Nativity Scene [right wing, exterior]

Right half of a Nativity Scene [right wing, exterior]

Title

Right half of a Nativity Scene [right wing, exterior]

[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2013]

Painting on spruce wood (Picea sp.)
The panel has been separated and laminated onto a second panel (probably lime wood) and cradled. The panel was originally the verso of a St Barbara (see
AT_KHM_GG6413r.)

Medium

Painting on spruce wood (Picea sp.)
The panel has been separated and laminated onto a second panel (probably lime wood) and cradled. The panel was originally the verso of a St Barbara (see
AT_KHM_GG6413r.)

[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2013]

The panel is part of a Nativity scene. A group of putti kneel with Joseph beside the infant Christ's crib. Behind the shepherds have just arrived on the scene.

[Görres, cda 2015]

Attributions
Monogrammist HS
Heinrich Vogtherr

Attributions

Monogrammist HS

? [Henricus Satrapitanus?; possibly Heinrich Vogtherr d. Ä.; cda 2023]

Heinrich Vogtherr

? [Henricus Satrapitanus?; possibly Heinrich Vogtherr d. Ä.; cda 2023]

Unknown

Attributed to: a saxon artist
[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2013]

Circle of Lucas Cranach the Younger

'[...] stehen - eine nähere kritische Untersuchung vorbehalten - den Arbeiten Lucas Cranachs des Jüngeren nahe.'
[Gustav Glück, curator at the Gemäldegalerie, on 9.7.1907; Gemäldegalerie archive, KHM Z.252/1907]

Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder

'aus der Schule Kranach's'
[Ilg 1873, 46]

Production date
about 1530

Production date

about 1530

[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2013]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 143.7 (l./r.) x 39.9 (t.) 40.1 (b.) cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 143.7 (l./r.) x 39.9 (t.) 40.1 (b.) cm

  • Dimensions of painted surface: 142 x ca. 38 (t.) 38.5 (b.) cm

  • [Technologische Untersuchung, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 2011]

Signature / Dating

None

Inscriptions and Labels

Reverse of the cradle: - bottom centre, on the vertical member:
paper label: 'Direktion der Gemäldegalerie, Kunsthistorisches Staatsmuseum, Inv. …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the cradle: - bottom centre, on the vertical member:

  • paper label: 'Direktion der Gemäldegalerie, Kunsthistorisches Staatsmuseum, Inv. Nr. 6413'

  • [Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2013]

Owner
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Repository
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Location
Vienna
CDA ID
AT_KHM_GG6413v
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/AT_KHM_GG6413v/

Connected Works

St Barbara [right wing of an altar]
  • St Barbara [right wing of an altar], about 1530
  • AT_KHM_GG6413r
  • Painting
  • Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
St Catharine [recto, left wing] The Virgin (left half of a nativity scene] [verso, left wing]
  • St Catharine [recto, left wing] The Virgin (left half of a nativity scene] [verso, left wing], about 1530
  • AT_KHM_GG6412
  • Painting
  • Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Provenance

  • first mentioned as part of the furnishings for the knights castle (Rittergruft) built under Emperor Franz I. within the grounds of Laxenburg castle.
    [A. Ilg, 1973, S. 46]; [Leitner 1978, 23]

  • 1907 brought to the conservation department of the Kunsthistorische Hofmuseum for restoration.
    [KHM, Gemäldegalerie archive, Galerieakten Z.252/1907]

  • 1922 entered in the inventory of the Gemäldegalerie of the KHM
    [KHM, Gemäldegalerie archive , Galerieakten Z.18/1922]

[Kunsthistorisches Museum, revised 2013]

Exhibitions

None

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Leitner 1878 23
AuthorQuirin Ritter von Leitner
TitleMonographie des kaiserlichen Lustschlosses Laxenburg
Place of PublicationVienna
Year of Publication1878
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Ilg 1873 46
AuthorAlbert Ilg
TitleKunsthistorische Bemerkungen und Beiträge, gesammelt in Wien und auf Wanderungen in Niederösterreich
JournalBerichte und Mittheilungen des Alterthums-Vereins zu Wien
IssueJg. XIII
Year of Publication1873
Pages15-60
Show Literature
  • Right half of a Nativity Scene [right wing, exterior], about 1530

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