Christ and the Samaritan Woman

Title

Nadine Jaser, in Exhib. Cat. Dessau 2015, No. 59]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Nadine Jaser, in Exhib. Cat. Dessau 2015, no. 59]

Jesus sits on the [left] edge of the well while the young woman leans over the edge on the other side to get water. They maintain eyecontact and she listens attentively to what he has to say.

[Nadine Jaser, in Exhib. Cat. Dessau 2015, no. 59]

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Exhib. Cat. Lübeck 2021, no. 34] [Nadine Jaser, in Exhib. Cat. Dessau 2015, no. 59]

Production dates: 1532
1532 or 1542

Production dates

1532	[dated]
1532 or 1542	[Nadine Jaser, in Exhib. Cat. Dessau 2015, No. 59]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 67 x 50.5 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 67 x 50.5 cm
[Nadine Jaser, in Exhib. Cat. Dessau 2015, no. 59]

Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia at the bottom: serpent with elevated wings, facing left, and date '1532', both in black paint

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the bottom: serpent with elevated wings, facing left, and date '1532', both in black paint
[cda 2016]

Owner: Federal Republic of Germany
Repository: Museum für Franken, Staatliches Museum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Würzburg
Location: Würzburg

CDA ID: DE_MFMW_Lg-60669
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_MFMW_Lg-60669/

Provenance

1940 acquired from Galerie Schmidlin, Zürich by the art dealer W. A. Hofer for the State Secretary Paul Körner, from there gifted by the Prussian State Council to H. Göring

See the entry in the Lost Art-database, Stiftung Deutsches Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste: Lost Art-ID 220363; http://www.lostart.de/DE/Fund/220363 (accessed 17 Dec. 2019).

See also the entry in the DHM-database: Datenblatt RMG00485; https://www.dhm.de/datenbank/goering/dhm_goering.php?seite=5&fld_0=RMG00485 (accessed 17 Dec. 2019).

Exhibitions

Dessau 2015, no. 59
Lübeck 2021, no. 34

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Exhib. Cat. Lübeck 2021

223

034

Fig. p. 223

Editor	Dagmar Täube
Title	Lucas Cranach der Ältere und Hans Kemmer. Meistermaler zwischen Renaissance und Reformation [Lübeck, St. Annen-Museum]
Place of Publication	Munich
Year of Publication	2021

Show Literature

Exhib. Cat. Dessau 2015

240-241

Editor	Norbert Michels
Title	Cranach in Anhalt. Vom alten zum neuen Glauben
Place of Publication	Petersberg
Year of Publication	2015

Show Literature

Christ and the Samaritan Woman, 1532

Images

Technical studies

10. 2015Technical examination / Scientific analysis

Infrared reflectography

Underdrawing

DESCRIPTION

- An underdrawing is not readily visible; in the background minor changes were made during the painting process.

Comments:

- The composition is the same as that of a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder from about 1506.

[Sandner, Smith-Contini, Heydenreich, cda 2017]

photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich
photographed by Ingo Sandner

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