Known for along time as 'The Reclining Diana' [...]. The cartel reveals the correct interpretation [...]. It implies that it is a represenation of a nymph of the source. If the subject of Diana is assimilated it does not impose, nevertheless [...] a certain kinship between the daughter of Zeus
Known for along time as 'The Reclining Diana' [...]. The cartel reveals the correct interpretation [...]. It implies that it is a represenation of a nymph of the source. If the subject of Diana is assimilated it does not impose, nevertheless [...] a certain kinship between the daughter of Zeus and the nymph can be imagined, because her attributes [...] are the same as those of the Goddess of Hunting [...] The artist cultivates an ambiguous description of the situation in which he presents the voluptuous reclining figure, [...], at once yielding and rebellious, precisely framed in a natural environment of acidic chromatism. He creates with brilliance an ambivalent situation, which conforms with the tastes in Germany at that time.
[Cat. Besançon 1992, 44]
- Attributions
-
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Younger
Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie Besançon, revised 2014] |
Lucas Cranach the Younger | ' or the Elder.' [Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 638, No. 547] |
- Production dates
- about 1537
about 1540 - 1550
Production dates
about 1537 | [Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie Besançon, revised 2014] |
about 1540 - 1550 | [Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 638, No. 547] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 48.5 x 74.2 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 48.5 x 74.2 cm
[Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie Besançon, revised 2014]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia: winged serpent with dropped wings
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia: winged serpent with dropped wings
- Inscriptions and Labels
- at top left: 'FONTIS NYMPHA SACRI SOMNVM / NE RVMPE QVIESCO'
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- at top left:
'FONTIS NYMPHA SACRI SOMNVM / NE RVMPE QVIESCO'
- Owner
- Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie Besançon
- Repository
- Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie Besançon
- Location
- Besançon
- CDA ID
- FR_MBAAB_896-1-56
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR403C
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/FR_MBAAB_896-1-56/