The Sermon of St John the Baptist

The Sermon of St John the Baptist

Title

The Sermon of St John the Baptist

[Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]

Painting on beech wood

Medium

Painting on beech wood

[Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]

The fragment of a wooden panel painting shows the audience crowded together in tiered rows, facing left. One of the male portraits bears the distinguished features of Friedrich the Wise, elector of Saxony. In the background is a landscape with a distant view of a town.

[Landesmuseum für Kunst und

The fragment of a wooden panel painting shows the audience crowded together in tiered rows, facing left. One of the male portraits bears the distinguished features of Friedrich the Wise, elector of Saxony. In the background is a landscape with a distant view of a town.

[Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]

Autographed work from Crnach's early period (1510 bis 1520) eigenhändig.
[Bode 1888, 79, 81]

Production dates
1520 - 1530
about 1510 - 1530

Production dates

1520 - 1530

[Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]

about 1510 - 1530

[Dohe 2015 A]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 79 x 19.5 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 79 x 19.5 cm

  • [Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]

Signature / Dating

None

Inscriptions and Labels

On the reverse of the panel, handwritten note:
'Anno 1553 Do die stadt Culmbach im Coburg [...] umb …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • On the reverse of the panel, handwritten note:

  • 'Anno 1553 Do die stadt Culmbach im Coburg [...] umb Martini belagert und zum sturm geschossen worden lieffen die [...] steckten die stadt an dryen enden in brandt. Also auch die kirchen daraus dieses stuck von einer tafel gehauwen und mir geschenkt worden [...] hab ich 7 Taler wage geben datum [...] H Wilhelm Kinhof'

  • [Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]

Owner
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg
Repository
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg
Location
Oldenburg
CDA ID
DE_LmKKO_15-571
FR (1978) Nr.
FR220D
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_LmKKO_15-571/

Provenance

  • acquired in 1807
    [Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg, revised 2014]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Dohe 2015 A
AuthorSebastian Dohe
TitleLucas Cranach d. Ä., Predigt Johannes des Täufers (Fragment), um 1510 bis 1530
Publicationin Das Kunstwerk des Monats Mai 2015
Place of PublicationOldenburg
Year of Publication2015
Link http://www.landesmuseum-oldenburg.niedersachsen.de/download/96597/Kunstwerk_des_Monats.pdf
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Deuter 2011 60 Fig. p. 61
AuthorJörg Deuter
TitleJohann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein als Sammler. Europäische Kunst 1500-1800
Place of PublicationOldenburg
Year of Publication2011
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 No. 220D
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1973
AuthorWilhelm H. Köhler, Frank Steigerwald
TitleLucas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1973
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Cat. Oldenburg 1967 48 Fig.
AuthorHerbert Wolfgang Keiser
TitleGemäldegalerie Oldenburg
Volume1, 2
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication1967
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Holtze 1927 294, 300 Fig. 2
AuthorO. Holtze
TitleDie Unordnung der alten Galerie im Oldenburger Landesmuseum
JournalOldenburger Jahrbuch
Issue31
Year of Publication1927
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Cat. Oldenburg 1888 79, 81
AuthorWilhelm Bode
TitleDie Grossherzogliche Gemälde-Galerie zu Oldenburg
Place of PublicationVienna
Year of Publication1888
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Research History / Discussion

Related to but by no means matching the composition of a woodcut depicting the same subject from 1516.

[Keiser, Cat. Oldenburg 1967, 48]

  • The Sermon of St John the Baptist, 1520 - 1530

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