Retabel of the Vineyard from the Franciscan church, Salzwedel [right wing]: Passover meal, Last Supper [recto]; Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon [verso]

Retabel of the Vineyard from the Franciscan church, Salzwedel [right wing]: Passover meal, Last Supper [recto]; Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon [verso]

Title

Retabel of the Vineyard from the Franciscan church, Salzwedel [right wing]: Passover meal, Last Supper [recto]; Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon [verso]

[cda 2013]

Painting on oak wood

Medium

Painting on oak wood

[cda 2013]

Recto:

The panel is divided into two fields. The upper field shows the jewish Passover meal. Men, women and children have gathered around a circular table. They have walking sticks to signal their departure.

In the lower field this is related to the Last Supper. The apostles also sit at a

Recto:

The panel is divided into two fields. The upper field shows the jewish Passover meal. Men, women and children have gathered around a circular table. They have walking sticks to signal their departure.

In the lower field this is related to the Last Supper. The apostles also sit at a round table, Christ is emphasized by a halo and his position beneath the window with a view of a landscape. A cupbearer and a dog are present at the scene.

Verso:

Full-length portrait of Philipp Melanchthon wearing a black cassock beneath a rounded arch with organic ornamentation in the spandrels. Melanchthon holds an open book in his hands and presents the contents to the viewer.

[Görres, cda 2013]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Younger and Workshop

[Schade 1974, 96, 98]

Production date
1582

Production date

1582

[central panel dated]

Dimensions
Dimension of painted surface: 166.5 x 59.7 cm (clear dimension)

Dimensions

  • Dimension of painted surface: 166.5 x 59.7 cm (clear dimension)

  • Dimensions including frame: 191 x 84.7 x 6.7 cm

  • [cda 2013]

Signature / Dating

Central panel with artist's insignia winged serpent with dropped wings, facing left, and dated '1582'

Signature / Dating

  • Central panel with artist's insignia winged serpent with dropped wings, facing left, and dated '1582'

  • [cda 2013]

Inscriptions and Labels

Biblical quotation in an open book in Melanchthon's hands:
'Rom. VIII
Die Gott erwelet hat,
die hat er auch …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • Biblical quotation in an open book in Melanchthon's hands:

  • 'Rom. VIII

  • Die Gott erwelet hat,

  • die hat er auch beruffen,

  • Diese wort. S. pauli sind

  • einn heilsamer frolicher

  • Trost, der gantzen kirchen

  • darumb furgeschrieben, das

  • wir vns damit trosten sollen,

  • Das diese vnd kein anderr got-

  • tes volck vnd Auserwelete

  • sind die zum Beruff komen

  • sind, das ist die Gottes wort

  • hören lernen vnd anemen.

  • da

  • Darumb wer beruffen ist

  • der tröste sich, vnd wisse, das

  • keine andere, sie heissen wie

  • sie wollen, Gottes volck sin

  • vnd das er gewielich auser

  • welet ist, So er bey dem er

  • kanden Gottes wort ent

  • lich bleibet.

  • philip. Melan.

  • Rom. VIII

  • SI DEVS PRO NOBIS,

  • QVIC [sic] CONTRA NOS.'

  • [Kalmbach 2007, 29]

Owner
Johann-Friedrich-Danneil-Museum Salzwedel
Repository
Johann-Friedrich-Danneil-Museum Salzwedel
Location
Salzwedel
CDA ID
DE_JFDMS_K700c
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_JFDMS_K700c/

Overall view of the piece
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Provenance

  • from the church in the former Franciscan monastery, Salzwedel, there until 1968
    [Kalmbach 2007, 5]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Rhein 2015 47 fn. 33
AuthorStefan Rhein
TitleLucas Cranach der Jüngere und Philipp Melanchthon. Zu den Spuren einer Wittenberger Beziehung
Publicationin Elke A. Werner, Anne Eusterschulte, Gunnar Heydenreich, eds., Lucas Cranach der Jüngere und die Reformation der Bilder
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
Pages42-51
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Sandner, Heydenreich, Smith-Contini 2015 138, Fn. 80
AuthorGunnar Heydenreich, Ingo Sandner, Helen Smith-Contini
TitleVeränderungen beim Unterzeichnen in Cranachs Werkstatt und die Arbeitsweise von Sohn Lucas
Publicationin Elke A. Werner, Anne Eusterschulte, Gunnar Heydenreich, eds., Lucas Cranach der Jüngere und die Reformation der Bilder
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
Link https://lucascranach.org/application/files/5215/6337/7366/Heydenreich_Sandner_Smith-Contini_2015_-_Unterzeichnung.pdf
Pages128-141
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Slenczka 2011 429-435, 439
AuthorRuth Slenczka
TitleStädtische Konfessionskultur im Spiegel der Kirchenausstattung: Die Mönchskirche von Salzwedel und das Weinbergretabel von Lucas Cranach d. J. (1582)
Publicationin Jirí Fajt, Wilfried Franzen, Peter Knüvener, eds., Die Altmark von 1300 bis 1600. Eine Kulturregion im Spannungsfeld von Magdeburg, Lübeck und Berlin
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication2011
Pages421-439
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Kalmbach 2007
AuthorUlrich Kalmbach
TitleDer Weinberg-Altar von Lucas Cranach d. J. aus der Mönchskirche in Salzwedel
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Issue2nd edition
Year of Publication2007
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Schulze 2004 195-198, 201-202
AuthorIngrid Schulze
TitleLucas Cranach d. J. und die protestantische Bildkunst in Sachsen und Thüringen. Frömmigkeit, Theologie, Fürstenreformation
Place of PublicationBucha near Jena
Year of Publication2004
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Schade 1974 96, 98, 390
AuthorWerner Schade
TitleDie Malerfamilie Cranach
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1974
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schade1974
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Schade 1968 B 72
AuthorWerner Schade
TitleDie Epitaphbilder Lucas Cranach d. J.
Publicationin Bozena Steinborn, ed., Ze Studiów nad Sztuka XVI Wieku na Slasku i w Krajach Sasiednich(Materialy z konferencji urzadzonej przez Muzeum Slaskie we Wroclaw 10 i 17 grudnia 1966 roku)
Place of PublicationBreslau
Year of Publication1968
Pages63-76
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Research History / Discussion

As there is a half-hinge without a matching piece on the outer edge of the wing's frame (when closed) Szclenska 2011, 429 assumes that the retabel once had a further pair of moveable wings.

[Görres, cda 2013]

  • Retabel of the Vineyard from the Franciscan church, Salzwedel [right wing]: Passover meal, Last Supper [recto]; Portrait of Philipp Melanchthon [verso], 1582

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Underdrawing

DESCRIPTION [recto]

Tools/Materials:

- dry drawing material; dark chalk

Type/Ductus:

- freehand underdrawing

- delicate, fine to thin lines

Function:

- relatively binding for the final painted version; lines delineate contours and indicate the essential features; no representation of volume

Deviations:

- minor alterations made during the painting process

INTERPRETATION

Attribution:

- Lucas Cranach the Younger or workshop?

Comments:

- probably with reference to a pre-existing design

DESCRIPTION [Verso]

Tools/Materials:

- dry drawing material; dark chalk

Type/Ductus:

- freehand underdrawing of the hands

- delicate, fine lines

Function:

- relatively binding for the final painted version; lines delineate contours and indicate the essential features; no representation of volume

Deviations:

- minor alterations made during the painting process

INTERPRETATION

Attribution:

- Lucas Cranach the Younger or workshop?

Comments:

- probably with reference to a pre-existing design

[Smith, Sandner, Heydenreich revised 2014]

  • photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich
  • photographed by Ingo Sandner

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