The Crucifixion

The Crucifixion

Title

The Crucifixion

[cda 2017]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Le Festin, 100 Oeuvres Restaurées du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Libourne, 2009, 76, No. 35]

A small devotive panel depicting the crucifixion. The composition is arranged with clarity and the space cleverly distributed to lend the scene a sense of calm: Christ breathes his last breath and it will soon be dark. The soldier at the foot of the cross is dressed in armour typical

A small devotive panel depicting the crucifixion. The composition is arranged with clarity and the space cleverly distributed to lend the scene a sense of calm: Christ breathes his last breath and it will soon be dark. The soldier at the foot of the cross is dressed in armour typical of 16th century Saxony. Mary Magdalene kneels embracing the cross. The painter has positioned the Virgin to the left in the company of two women and St John is positioned slightly behind.

[cda 2016]

Attribution
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie, Libourne, revised 2016]

Production date
after 1550

Production date

after 1550

[cda, 2017]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 41 x 26 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 41 x 26 cm

  • [Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie, Libourne, revised 2016]

Owner
Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie, Libourne
Repository
Musée des Beaux-arts et d'Archéologie, Libourne
Location
Libourne
CDA ID
FR_MdBAL_D-2004-1-60
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/FR_MdBAL_D-2004-1-60/

Provenance

  • Collection of Victor Bertal, Nice
  • Bertal bequested to the City of Créon, 1895
  • deposited by the city of Créon in the Musée des Beaux-arts de Libourne, 2004
    [Le Festin, 100 Oeuvres Restaurées du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Libourne, 2009, 76, No. 35]

Research History / Discussion

[...] a barbe along the edge of the panel suggests that it may have been conceived as a panel for private devotion that was integrated into a piece of furniture [comment cda: it is more probable that the panel was conceived with its frame and may have been the central panel of a small freestanding triptych]

[Le Festin, 100 Oeuvres Restaurées du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Libourne, 2009, 76, No. 35]

  • The Crucifixion, after 1550

Images

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Condition Reports

Date2009

Peinture à l'huile sur panneau de peuplier qui devait etre enchase (bord supérieur et inférieur en 'tenons', le bois inférieur a été scié); le panneau est cintré; cette peinture est en très bel état de conservation, quelques petites usures et repeints sont visible dans la partie supérieure; le panneau, lui, est fragilisé sur les bords par des galleries de 'cussons' qui semblent encore actifs; une vingtaine de `trous d'envol' sont visible sur la face peinte, ils sont beaucoup plus nombreux sur la face bois (avec perte de poudre); le vernis épais, homogéne et faiencé, ne nuit pas à la lecture et à la qualité des 'tons', aussi optons-nous pour sa conservation.

[Le Festin, 100 Oeuvres Restaurées du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Libourne, 2009, 76, No. 35]

Conservation History

Date2005

Traitement trou à trou', insecticide; traitement general en ambiance'; traitement consolidation des galleries; rebouchage `trous d'envol'; nettoyage de surface; masticage, ragréage gravure; pose de vernis à retoucher; repiquage ponctuel; vernissage final

[Le Festin, 100 Oeuvres Restaurées du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Libourne, 2009, 76, No. 35]

  • conservation treatment by Laurent Rougier

Versions

Crucifixion
  • Crucifixion, about 1515 - 1520
  • DE_SMF_1066
  • Painting
  • Städel Museum Frankfurt a.M.
The Crucifixion
  • The Crucifixion, about 1575
  • US_MIA_2007-62a-b
  • Painting
  • Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Crucifixion
  • The Crucifixion, about 1520 - 1525
  • DE_NLMH_KM209
  • Painting
  • Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover

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