The Crucifixion with the Converted Captain

Attributions

Production dates

Dimensions

• Dimensions of support: 85.5 x 57.7 x 0.8 cm

• Dimensions including frame: 97.1 x 69.3 x 5.0 cm (+ 2.2 cm)

• [Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, revised 2011]

Signature / Dating

• Artist's insignia bottom right: winged serpent and dated '1538'

• Questions whether date is genuine

• [Cat. Dessau 1927, 15, No. 17][1]

• Questions date and signature

• [Friedländer,Rosenberg 1932, 85]

• [1][Klingen, Cat. Dessau 1996, 30]

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

• • top:

• 'VATER IN DEIN HANT BEFIL ICH MAIN GAIST'

• • above the captain's head:

• 'WARLICH DIESER MENSCH IST GOTTES SUN GEWES(T)'

• [Klingen, Cat. Dessau 1996, 30]

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

• Reverse of the panel: - top left, in the second field (from the left] of the cradle:

• paper label 'Gemäldegalerie Dessau / Werkstatt-Tagebuch Nr. [stamp-printed] 536 [handwritten with a feather in brown-black ink]'

• • bottom left (on the third cradle batten from the left):

• paper label, inscription handwritten in blue ink, 'Cranach, Lukas / 17 Kreuzigung Christi / Jst 1614, Staat 8, GV 395' (Staat 8 Nr. is incorrect, the correct no. is 7)

• Reverse of the frame:

• • top left:

• paper label (hardly legible), 'Gemäldegalerie Dessau / Werkstatt-Tagebuch Nr. [stamp-printed] 536 (handwritten with a feather in brown-black ink]'

• • top right:

• ink in black 'W. -J. 1930/123'

• • bottom right:

• paper label 'Staatliche Galerie Dessau / Gesamtverzeichnis / Nr. [printed] 395 [handwritten in pencil]'

• • beside this at the edge:

• in blue ink, illegible lettering (?)

• [Anhaltische Gemälde-Galerie, revised 2011]