Portrait of a Girl

Title

Portrait of a Girl

[cda 2016]

Painting on limewood (?)

Medium

Painting on limewood (?)

[Cat. Kronach 2014, 266-267, no. 101]

A half-length portrait of a girl against a dark background; the sitter is wearing a red dress, has her arms folded and is looking at the viewer; her loose hair is decorated with a black band; there is a coat-of-arms at the top left.

Attribution: Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Cat. Kronach 2014, 266-267, No. 101]

Production date: after 1600

Production date

after 1600

'probably early 17th century' [Cat. Kronach 2014, 266-267, No. 101]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 50.4 x 37.7 x 0.5 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 50.4 x 37.7 x 0.5 cm
[Cat. Kronach 2014, 266-267, no. 101]

Signature / Dating: None

Owner: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum
Repository: Fränkische Galerie, Kronach
Location: Kronach

CDA ID: DE_BNMM-FGK_R38
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_BNMM-FGK_R38/

Provenance

entered the collection of the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in the 19th century
[Cat. Kronach 2014, 266-267, no. 101]

Research History / Discussion

The Fürleger coat-of-arms is located at the top left. This family from Nuremberg was first mentioned in 1310, from 1495 family members were electable as councillers, by 1625 it had risen to the aristocratic ranks, but died out in the 18th century. The style of the work suggests it is from the so-called Dürer renaissance in the 17th century.

[Cat. Kronach 2014, 266-267, No. 101]

This portrait of a girl is very similar to a picture in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon [PT_MNAAL_1985]. the young women differ only in the colour of their respective bodices. The version in Kronach displays a coat-of-arms, while the version in Lisbon is represented with a wheel and a sword, the attributes of St Catherine.

A mirror inverted drawing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Inv.-No. 1995.269) confirms, that the design of a female half-length figure with attributes can be traced back to Cranach and that it later assumed an independent identity as a portrait in the Kronach version.

[see: Cat. Kronach 2014, 266-267, No. 101]

Portrait of a Girl, after 1600

Images

Technical studies

2016Technical Examination

Support

- limewood panel (?), two planks (25.2 / 12.6 cm)

- not thinned, bevelled edges

[Cat. Kronach 2014, 266-267, no. 101]

Versions

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