The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John

The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John

Title

The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John

[cda, 2015]

Painting on limewood

Medium

Painting on limewood

[Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1937, no. 105]

The Virgin looks out at the viewer, while supporting the infant Christ on her lap. A veil is draped over her wavy hair without concealing it. The child plucks a grape offered to him from the left by the infant St John.

[Görres, cda 2016]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach der Ältere

Attribution

Lucas Cranach der Ältere

[Gemäldegalerie Berlin, revised 2015] [Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1937, no. 105]

Production date
after 1537

Production date

after 1537

[cda, 2015] [Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1937, no. 105]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 77 x 57 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 77 x 57 cm

  • [Gemäldegalerie Berlin, revised 2015]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at bottom left: serpent with dropped wings

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at bottom left: serpent with dropped wings

  • [Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1937, no. 105]

  • [not visible on b/w photograph, cda 2021]

Owner
Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin
Repository
painting not preserved
CDA ID
DE_smbGG-Lost_559A
FR (1978) Nr.
FR392
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_smbGG-Lost_559A/

Provenance

  • acquired in 1890 from C. Lampe, Leipzig
    [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 392]
  • Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum, Berlin
  • lost/destroyed during World War II

[Gemäldegalerie Berlin, revised 2015]

See also the entry in the Lost Art-database, Stiftung Deutsches Zentrum für Kulturgutverluste: Lost Art-ID 018361; http://www.lostart.de/DE/Verlust/18361 (accessed 17 Dec. 2019).

Exhibitions

Berlin 1937, no. 105

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 392
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1937 38, 39 105 Pl. 81
EditorStaatliche Museen, Berlin
TitleLucas Cranach d. Ä. und Lucas Cranach d. J. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1937
Show Literature
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 88 316
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
Show Literature

Research History / Discussion

The composition is similar two versions in private collections: one of the same format [PRIVATE_NONE-P495] and the other a smaller more closely related version [PRIVATE_NONE-P053].

[cda 2021]

  • The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John, after 1537

Images

Compare images
  • overall

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

Entry with author
<author's name>, 'The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_smbGG-Lost_559A/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})
Entry with no author
'The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document, entry or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_smbGG-Lost_559A/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})

Help us to improve the Cranach Digital Archive.

Please contact us, if you have noticed a mistake.