St Paul

Title

St Paul

[cda 2019]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, revised 2019]

Recto: St Paul is depicted wearing a fiery red coat and standing on stony ground against dark foliage. The hilly landscape in the background changes abruptly to a rocky outcrop.

Verso: the Mother of Sorrows with a heart pierced by a sword (a later addition)

[see Exhib. Cat. Halle 2006, 171-172, No.

Recto: St Paul is depicted wearing a fiery red coat and standing on stony ground against dark foliage. The hilly landscape in the background changes abruptly to a rocky outcrop.

Verso: the Mother of Sorrows with a heart pierced by a sword (a later addition)

[see Exhib. Cat. Halle 2006, 171-172, No. 81]

Attribution: Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, revised 2019]
[Exhib. Cat. Halle 2006, 171-172, No. 81]

Production dates: about 1525 - 1530
about 1515 - 1520

Production dates

about 1525 - 1530	[Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, revised 2019]
about 1515 - 1520	[Exhib. Cat. Halle 2006, 171-172, No. 81]
about 1535 - 1545	[cda 2019]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 94 x 38.5 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 94 x 38.5 cm
Dimensions including frame: 114 x 57.5 cm
[Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, revised 2019]

Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia at the lower left: serpent with elevated wings (not genuine)

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the lower left: serpent with elevated wings (not genuine)

Owner: Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg
Repository: Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg
Location: Magdeburg

CDA ID: DE_KHMM_G278
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_KHMM_G278/

Connected Works

Provenance

1898 gifted by the Councillor of Commerce Paul Hennige, Magdeburg
[Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, revised 2019]

Exhibitions

Halle 2006, no. 81

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Exhib. Cat. Halle 2006

171-172

081

Fig. 81

Editor	Thomas Schauerte
Title	Der Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg. Renaissancefürst und Mäzen. Bd. 1: Katalog
Place of Publication	Regensburg
Year of Publication	2006

Show Literature

Research History / Discussion

The depictions on the exterior of the wing panels were added at a later stage.

[cda 2019]

This panel and its companion piece, a depiction of St Sebastian, belong to an altarpiece and are the sides shown on feast days. When closed the wings show a depiction of the Man of Sorrows on the left and the Virgin of Sorrows on the right. The exterior is of inferior artistic quality. […] The double halo bearing capital letters recalls those of the Passion cycle created for Halle.

[Exhib. Cat. Halle 2006, 171-172, No. 81]

This panel, together with its companion piece [DE_KHMM_G277], also in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Magdeburg, and four further panels now in Thurnfeld Abbey [AT_SKT_NONE-SKT001d-e], probably originally belonged to a larger retable.

[cda 2020]

St Paul, about 1525 - 1530

Images

Technical studies

03. 2019Technologische Untersuchung / Naturwissenschaftliche Materialanalyse

Infrarot-Reflektografie

Unterzeichnung

DESCRIPTION

Tools/Material:

- fluid, black medium, brush

Type/Ductus:

- relatively thin to somewhat broader lines

- hatching strokes

Function:

- relatively binding for the final painted version; lines delineate the main contours and desribe essential details and facial features; representation of volume with hatching strokes (in the drapery)

Deviations:

- minor corrections were made to forms during the painting process

INTERPRETATION

Attribution:

- Cranach workshop

Comments:

- probably after a pre-existing design

[Sandner, Smith-Contini, Heydenreich, cda 2019]

photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich
photographed by Ingo Sandner

Conservation History

Date2008 -

Conservation treatment 2008

[Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg, revised 2019]

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