St Catharine in front of a landscape

Title

[CDA 2010]

Painting on softwood (fir wood)

Medium

Painting on softwood (fir wood)

[Gemäldegalerie, revised 2010]

St Catharine is depicted standing in front of a wall facing to the right. In her right hand she holds a sword and in her left a stone. Behind the wall a path through a landscape leads to a town at the top of the painting. The original composition is

[Cat. Berlin 1996, 35]

Attribution: Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Gemäldegalerie, revised 2010]

Production date: about 1520 - 1525

Production date

about 1520 - 1525

[Gemäldegalerie, revised 2010]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 65 x 40.9 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 65 x 40.9 cm
Dimensions including frame: 79.4 x 56 cm
[Gemäldegalerie, revised 2010]

Signature / Dating: None

Owner: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Repository: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Location: Berlin

CDA ID: DE_smbGG_1866
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_smbGG_1866/

Connected Works

Provenance

1920 acquired as a gift from Dr. James Simon
lent to Büro Th. Demmler:
1927 lent to James Simon
1935 lent to the Deutsche Museum

[Gemäldegalerie, revised 2010]

Exhibitions

Berlin 1982

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Cat. Berlin 1996

Fig.100

Author	Rainald Grosshans, Henning Bock
Editor	Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
Title	Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Gesamtverzeichnis
Place of Publication	Berlin
Year of Publication	1996

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St Catharine in front of a landscape, about 1520 - 1525

Images

Technical studies

01. 1994Technical examination / Scientific analysis

Infrared photography

DESCRIPTION

- an underdrawing is not readily visible

- an initial painted version shows an architectural element, which suggests that the panel together with the present pendant piece were originally part of a larger composition showing a Virgin and Child in the central position - this observation is confirmed in the x-radiograph.

INTERPRETATION

Attribution:

- not possible

[Sandner, Smith-Contini, Heydenreich, cda 2016]

photographed by Fotowerkstatt, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

01. 1994Technical examination / Scientific analysis

X-radiography

photographed by Fotowerkstatt, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

01. 1994Technical examination / Scientific analysis

UV-light photography

photographed by Fotowerkstatt, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Condition Reports

Date2010

Support:

'Left 1 cm, right 2-4 cm: later addition'

[handwritten annotation in the documentation file]

[Gemäldegalerie, revised 2010]

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