Virgin and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara

Titles

Virgin and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara	[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, No. 134]
The Mystical Marriage of St Catherine	[cda 2016]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood	[cda 2016]
Lime wood	[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, No. 134]

The infant Christ stands on the Virgin's lap and touches St Catherine's hand at the left edge of the painting, while his left hand rests in that of St Barbara at the right edge. In the background two putti hold up a curtain.

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, No. 134]
[Bornschein 2015, 114-141]

Production dates: about 1522
about 1525

Production dates

about 1522	[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, No. 134]
about 1525	[Dating on the reverse of a postcard in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2001]
about 1530	[Bornschein 2015, 118]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 90 x 62 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 90 x 62 cm
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, No. 134]

Signature / Dating: Artist's insigia at the top edge: winged serpent

Signature / Dating

Artist's insigia at the top edge: winged serpent
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, No. 134]

Owner: Kath. Pfarrgemeinde St. Marien
Repository: Dom St. Marien, Erfurt
Location: Erfurt

CDA ID: DE_DSME_NONE-DSME001
FR (1978) Nr.: FR134
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_DSME_NONE-DSME001/

Provenance

first recorded in Erfurt cathedral at the beginning of the 18th century
1801 transferred to the gallery in Aschaffenburg belonging to the sovereign of Erfurt, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erlthal
1802 returned to Erfurt
transferred for safekeeping during the Second World War (when and where is not recorded)
1949 stolen, shortly after offered to the art dealer Levin in West Berlin, he secured it and returned it to the mayor of Erfurt.
[Bornschein 2015, 121-124]

Exhibitions

Dresden 1899, Cat.-No. 99
Erfurt 1903, Cat.-No. 35
Weimar 1972, Pl. 43

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Bornschein 2015

Author	Falko Bornschein
Editor	Bettina Seyderhelm
Title	Das Cranachgemälde im Dom zu Erfurt - ein Zeugnis altgläubiger Frömmigkeit im Zeitalter der Reformation.
Publication	in: Cranach-Werke am Ort ihrer Bestimmung. Tafelbilder der Malerfamilie Cranach und ihres Umkreises in den Kirchen der Evangelischen Kirche in Mitteldeutschland.
Place of Publication	Regensburg
Year of Publication	2015
Pages	114-141

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Schade, Schuttwolf 1994

Author	Werner Schade, Allmuth Schuttwolf
Title	Malerei und Plastik
Publication	in Allmuth Schuttwolf, ed., Gotteswort und Menschenbild. Werke von Cranach und seinen Zeitgenossen, Exhib. Cat. Gotha
Place of Publication	Gotha
Year of Publication	1994
Pages	15-94

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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

No. 134

Fig. 134

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Editor	G. Schwartz
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Basel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1979

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Research History / Discussion

On the basis of a record by an Erfurt chronicler from the beginning of the 18th century Overmann identified the donor of the panel as Georg Hirschbach the Elder. [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, No. 134]

Numerous 20th century publications describe – sometimes in great detail – a signature at the top edge, for example [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, No. 134]. However a technical examination of the panel in 2014 did not provide any indication for the (previous) existence of a signature. [Bornschein 2015, 118-119]

Numerous versions or copies after this composition exist e. g. in St Joseph's Servite Convent, Innsbruck [AT_SJI_NONE-SJI001], in an private collection [PRIVATE_NONE-P455] in the National Gallery in Prague [CZ_NGP_DO4566] and one attributed to Wolfgang Krodel the Elder in Schloss Eggenberg, Graz [AT_UMJ_101].

[cda 2020]

Virgin and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara, about 1522

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