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.

[cda 2023]

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/).

[cda 2023]

Madonna Lactans, about 1515 - 1520

Images

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