Madonna Lactans

Madonna Lactans

Title

Madonna Lactans

[cda 2023]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[on the reverse of a postcard printed for exhibition 'Maria Lactans - Die Stillende in der Kunst', Vienna 2009-10]

Beech wood

[Hutter 1972, 40]

The Virgin is depicted against the backdrop of a mountainous landscape, seated nursing her child on her lap. A tree rises from the middle ground on her right. The child grasps the breast she offers him with both hands.

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Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attributions

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[on the reverse of a postcard printed for the exhibition 'Maria Lactans – Die Stillende in der Kunst', Vienna 2009-10]

Lucas Cranach the Younger

According to a handwritten note by M.J. Friedländer on the back of a photograph: 'Lucas Cranach d.jü.' [rkd online, accessed 11.09.2023]

Production dates
about 1515 - 1520
1500 - 1525

Production dates

about 1515 - 1520

[cda 2023]

1500 - 1525

[on the reverse of a postcard printed for the exhibition 'Maria Lactans – Die Stillende in der Kunst', Vienna 2009-10]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 87 x 58 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 87 x 58 cm

  • Dimensions including frame: 122 x 91 cm

  • [on the reverse of a postcard printed for the exhibition 'Maria Lactans – Die Stillende in der Kunst', Vienna 2009-10]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Provinzialat der Kapuziner Österreich-Südtirol
Repository
Kapuzinerkloster Wien
Location
Vienna
CDA ID
AT_KW_11500-179
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/AT_KW_11500-179/

Provenance

  • displayed as a sacred image in Tulln Capuchin Monastery where it remained until the dissolution of the monastery by order of the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II
  • kept since then in the cloister of the Capuchin Monastery 'Hl. Maria von den Engeln' in Vienna
    [on the reverse of a postcard printed for exhibition 'Maria Lactans - Die Stillende in der Kunst', Vienna 2009-10]

Exhibitions

Vienna 2009/2010

Research History / Discussion

Very similar in size and composition to a version of the subject in the Szépmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest [HU_SMB_4328]. A smaller version is kept in the Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt: [DE_HLMD_GK69] (https://lucascranach.org/de/DE_HLMD_GK69/).

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  • Madonna Lactans, about 1515 - 1520

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