The Infant Christ overcoming Death and the Devil

Title

[cda 2013]

Painting on beech

Medium

Painting on beech

[Schloss Gottorf, revised 2013]

The painting depicts the infant Christ with an apple in his right hand and a cross in his left hand. He stands over the figure of a Devil and Death, who is depicted as a skeleton. In the background on the left there is a view of a mountain landscape,

[Dittmeyer, Schloss Gottorf 2013]

Attribution: Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Schloss Gottorf, revised 2013]

Production date: about 1534

Production date

about 1534

[Schloss Gottorf, revised 2013]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 37.9 x 24.5 x 0.5 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 37.9 x 24.5 x 0.5 cm
[Schloss Gottorf, revised 2013]

Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia bottom right: serpent (with elevated wings)

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia bottom right: serpent (with elevated wings)

Inscriptions and Labels

bottom edge, on the exposed pale ground:
'O MORS ERO MORS TVA'

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

- bottom edge, on the exposed pale ground:
'O MORS ERO MORS TVA'

Owner: Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig
Repository: Schloss Gottorf, Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Schleswig
Location: Schleswig

CDA ID: DE_SHLM_1996-208
FR (1978) Nr.: FR222E
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_SHLM_1996-208/

Provenance

formerly property of Otto Sohn-Rethel (1877-1949), Anacapri
22.5.1996 auctioned at Neumeister, Munich
from there it entered the museum's collection as a gift from the Freundeskreis Schloss Gottorf e.V. and the Sparkassen- und Giroverband Schleswig-Holstein - Foundation

[Schloss Gottorf, revised 2013]

Exhibitions

Schleswig 2005

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Exhib. Cat. Schleswig 2005

150f.

038

Editor	Herwig Guratzsch, Claus von Carnap-Bornheim
Title	Wege ins Jenseits. Mit Walküren zu Odin, mit Engeln zu Gott, [Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig]
Place of Publication	Neumünster
Year of Publication	2005

Show Literature

Cat. Schleswig 1997

No. 94

Editor	Heinz Spielmann
Title	Schloß Gottorf und seine Sammlungen. Renaissance und Barock
Series	Neue Bildhefte
Place of Publication	Schleswig
Year of Publication	1997

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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

115

No. 222E

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

The Infant Christ overcoming Death and the Devil, about 1534

Images

Technical studies

08. 2012Technical examination / Scientific analysis

Infrared reflectography

Underdrawing

- an underdrawing is not readily visible

[Smith, Sandner, Heydenreich, cda 2013]

photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich
photographed by Ingo Sandner

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

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