A multifigured composition with Christ on the cross at the centre between the two crucified thieves; Mary Magdalene kneels at the base of the cross and at the left edge the Virgin is supported by St John, while the converted centurion is shown at the right edge.
Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas Cranach the Younger
Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
[[Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Cuba]]
Lucas Cranach the Younger
[Flechsig 1900 A, 282]
Production date
about 1520
Production date
about 1520
[Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Cuba, revised 2001]
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 35 x 22 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 35 x 22 cm
Dimensions including frame: 46.5 x 66 x 5 cm
[Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Cuba, 23.06.2000]
Inscriptions and Labels
Reverse of panel: - Centre:
Paper label: 'Collectie Goudstikker No. 2363'
Left of centre:
Wax seal
Beneath these:
Paper label
Top right …
Inscriptions and Labels
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
Reverse of panel: - Centre:
Paper label: 'Collectie Goudstikker No. 2363'
Left of centre:
Wax seal
Beneath these:
Paper label
Top right corner:
in paint: '90-3,467'; with white chalk: '691' (encircled)
- original frame may have been preserved. Otherwise it is most likely to be a copy of the original one. This moulding is typical for works of the Cranach workshop for several decades. (The hollowed vertical and top mouldings contrasts with the flat sloped sill.)
Interpretetation of results in Jägers report by Gunnar Heydenreich:
Most likely the paint sample was taken from some inpainting (retouching), because:
The ‘ground’ contains kaolin, which has not been used in the Cranach workshop and
The blue paint contains Prussian blue, which was not known in the 16th century.
Thus the analysis cannot supply any further information on the painting. Nor does it allow any conclusion as to whether the painting is a later copy or not.
[Heydenreich, unpublished report, 04.07.2001]
written by Gunnar Heydenreich
25.04.2001Scientific analysis
Micro-sampling / cross-sections
Cross-sections examined employing microchemical tests, IR-spectroscopy, SEM and EDX
Sample 5a:
Layer sequence of the sample (from the bottom up):
Yellow: light yellow transparent layer of binding medium, a glue isolating layer
White: pure white granular, crystalline layer, ground; a siliceous bulking material (kaolin) bound in a binding medium containing protein (glue)
Yellow: thin yellowish transparent layer of binding medium, size
Black: thin paint layer, in the cross-section by larger magnification two layers were identified. The lower greenish-blue layer consists of an admixture of lead white and prussian blue, the upper layer contains bone black. There is a thin layer of varnish separating the two layers
Yellow: compact three layered application of varnish with strong and varied fluorescence in UV light (cannot be defined further)
[Report, Elizabeth Jägers, Erhard Jägers, 25.04.2001]
analysed by Elizabeth Jägers
analysed by Erhard Jägers
11.05.2000Scientific analysis
Identification of wood species / Dendrochronology
Support
Beech wood
[Klein Report, 11.05.2000]
analysed by Peter Klein
Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive
Entry with author
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Entry with no author
'The Crucifixion', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document, entry or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/CU_MNBAC_90-3467a/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})