The Virgin and Child with Saints

The Virgin and Child with Saints

Titles

The Virgin and Child with Saints

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The Mystic Marriage of St Catherine

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Painting on wood (?)

Medium

Painting on wood (?)

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The infant Christ is shown at the centre of the composition, standing on the Virgin’s lap and bearing his weight on his right leg. He is gently supported by the seated female figures, framing him in a triangle. The Virgin is at the apex, her head tilted slightly to her

The infant Christ is shown at the centre of the composition, standing on the Virgin’s lap and bearing his weight on his right leg. He is gently supported by the seated female figures, framing him in a triangle. The Virgin is at the apex, her head tilted slightly to her right and her hair worn loose. St Catherine is shown on the left and is identified by the hilt of a sword, while the woman on the right is probably St Barbara. The figurative group is set in front of a curtain held at either corner by a cherub.

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Attributions
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Wolfgang Krodel the Elder

Attributions

Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

[cda 2020]

Wolfgang Krodel the Elder

[Cat. Graz 1999, 13]

Production dates
after 1525
about 1528 - 1563

Production dates

after 1525

[cda 2020]

about 1528 - 1563

'16. Jh.' [Cat. Graz 1999, 13]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 42.7 × 28.3 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 42.7 × 28.3 cm

  • [D. Koepplin, handwritten note on the reverse of a photograph, Koepplin Archive]

Signature / Dating

none

Owner
Universalmuseum Joanneum
Repository
Alte Galerie, Schloss Eggenberg, Graz
Location
Graz
CDA ID
AT_UMJ_101
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/AT_UMJ_101/

Research History / Discussion

This painting is probably a copy after a larger version by Cranach the Elder or workshop now in Erfurt Cathedral [DE_DSME_NONE-DSME001]. Three further copies or versions are known to exist. A version with similar dimensions to the panel in Erfurt is now in St Joseph's Servite Convent, Innsbruck [AT_SJI_NONE-SJI001] and two further smaller copies, one in a private collection [PRIVATE_NONE-P455] and the other in the National Gallery in Prague [CZ_NGP_DO4566].

[cda 2020]

  • The Virgin and Child with Saints, after 1525

Images

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Versions

The Virgin and standing Child with Sts Catherine and Dorothea
  • The Virgin and standing Child with Sts Catherine and Dorothea, after 1550
  • AT_SJI_NONE-SJI001
  • Painting
  • Servitenkonvent St. Josef, Innsbruck
The Mysrtic Marriage of St. Catherine
  • The Mysrtic Marriage of St. Catherine, about 1600
  • CZ_NGP_DO4566
  • Painting
  • Národní galerie v Praze (National Gallery in Prague)
Virgin and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara
  • Virgin and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara, about 1522
  • DE_DSME_NONE-DSME001
  • Painting
  • Kath. Pfarrgemeinde St. Marien
Virgin and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara
  • Virgin and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara, after 1550
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P455
  • Painting
  • Private Collection

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