St Agnes

Painting on limewood, laminated onto a wooden panel (fir)

Medium

Painting on limewood, laminated onto a wooden panel (fir)

[Condition report, Ludwig Neuhauser, Ferdinandeum 1982]

St Agnes is depicted as a full-length figure, facing left in front of a landscape and a hedge. She wears a red dress trimmed with ermine and holds a lamb in her hands. There is a guilded gold halo around her head.

[Görres, cda 2015]

Attributions: Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Cat. Innsbruck 1928, no. 931]
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Ferdinandeum, revised 2014]

Dating: about 1540 - 1550

Dating

about 1540 - 1550

[cda 2015]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 93.5 x 41.3 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 93.5 x 41.3 cm
Dimensions including frame: 105 x 53.5 cm
[Ferdinandeum, revised 2014]

Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia at the bottom on a stone: winged serpent, facing left; in black paint; probably not genuine. [Ferdinandeum, revised 2014]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the bottom on a stone: winged serpent, facing left; in black paint; probably not genuine. [Ferdinandeum, revised 2014]

Labels: Reverse of the frame: - paper label: 'Inv. Nr. 931 Schule Lucas Cranach: Hl. Agnes, Öl/Holz.'
- with a …

Labels

later inscription, stamps, seals, labels:

Reverse of the frame: - paper label: 'Inv. Nr. 931 Schule Lucas Cranach: Hl. Agnes, Öl/Holz.'
- with a black pen: '931'
On the auxillary support:
- '931', 'Inv. Nr. 931', '1'(encircled)
[Görres, cda 2015]

Owner: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
Repository: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck
Location: Innsbruck

CDA ID: AT_TLFI_Gem931
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/AT_TLFI_Gem931/

Connected Works1

Provenance

- 1898 acquired from the bequest of Dr. David von Schönherr
[Ferdinandeum, revised 2014]

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Cat. Innsbruck 1928

931

Editor	Joseph Ringler
Title	Museum Ferdinandeum Innsbruck. Katalog der Gemäldesammlung
Place of Publication	Innsbruck
Year of Publication	1928

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St Agnes, about 1540 - 1550

Images

Condition Reports

Date10.01.2005

Surface:

- slightly dusty

- two whitish-matt drips on the dress - one on the lower half and the other above

Varnish:

- glossy - presumably a recent application

- yellowish remnants in the recesses

- fine network of cracks

- damage caused by the rebate of the frame, particularly on the right

Paint layers:

- adhesion to the ground/support is generally good - except in the sky

- large fills and retouches

- numerous small losses over the entire painted surface

- drying cracks - particularly in the red dress

- some isolated larger cracks in the paint layer

- fine network of cracks over the entire surface

Support:

- concave warp

Frame:

- the members have a coved profile and measure 80 mm in width, guilded

- the corners and the sides are damaged

- areas in relief are abraded

- very patchy

[Condition report, Claudia Eger, Ferdinandeum 2005]

examined by Claudia Eger

Date07. 1982

Limewood laminated onto a wooden auxillary support (fir): 93.2 x 41.5 cm

The original panel was thinned with a plane and attached to a new wooden panel. The paint layers are in a bad condition and extensively overpainted. A triangular piece has been added to the top left corner.

[Condition report, Ludwig Neuhauser, Ferdinandeum 1982]

examined by Ludwig Neuhauser

Conservation History

Date07. 1982

The extensive, rough overpaint was for the most part removed. Disturbing losses were filled and retouched. Regeneration. Final varnish: synthetic resin.

[Conservation report Ludwig Neuhauser, Ferdinandeum 1982]

conservation treatment by Ludwig Neuhauser

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