St Peter

St Peter

Title

St Peter

[cda 2014]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2014]

Full-length depiction of St Peter with his attributes (a key and a book), facing right on a stony ground against a dark background.

Attribution
Lucas Cranach der Ältere

Attribution

Lucas Cranach der Ältere

[cartelen.louvre.fr/; 09.07.2014]

Production date
about 1500 - 1599

Production date

about 1500 - 1599

'16th century' [cartelen.louvre.fr/; 09.07.2014]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 113 x 54 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 113 x 54 cm

  • [cartelen.louvre.fr/; 09.07.2014]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Repository
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Location
Paris
CDA ID
F_MdLP_MNR938
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/F_MdLP_MNR938/

Provenance

  • 1927: in a polish private collection
  • 1931: in the collection of Comtesse de Bonneval (private collection, France)
  • Hotel Drouot, Paris (art dealer, France)
  • Accession: Bruno Lohse, Paris, 15.06.1941 (agent)
  • 1942/43 Paris (or 15.06.1941), bought by Göring through Lohse (Hotel Drouot); RM. 12.000,--
  • whereabouts after 1945:
  • registered at the central collecting point, Munich under the No. 6781
  • Restitution France: MNR 938
  • 1952 transferred to the collection of the Musée de Louvre by the Office des Biens et Intérêts Privés
  • from 23.07.1964 until 1987 the panel was deposited in the Musée Anne-de-Beaujeu, Moulins
  • 1987 Musée de Louvre, Paris
    [cda 2015]

see: [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/mnrbis_fr]; [http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/goering/dhm_goering.php?seite=5&fld_0=RMG00501]

  • St Peter, about 1500 - 1599

Images

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Technical studies

1992 - 2012Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • Micro-sampling / cross-sections

Paint Layers and Gilding

Stratigraphic examination of the background:

- the background exhibits numerous layers of overpaint: the original paint layers shown a layer which probably contains azurite underlaid with a greyish-brown layer and overlaid by two layers containing cobalt

[Paris, C2RMF, numéro de reference: F1194]

  • examined by M. Eveno
  • examined by E. Martin
  • examined by A. Duval
  • X-radiography
  • x_radiograph
  • x_radiograph
  • x_radiograph
  • x_radiograph
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  • created by Le Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF)
  • Instrumental material analysis
  • reverse
  • reverse

Support

- the wooden support has a auxillary support attached to the reverse (?)

Ground and Imprimatura

- white ground containing calcium carbonate

[Paris, C2RMF, numéro de reference: F1193]

  • UV-light photography
  • uv_light
  • photographed by Le Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF)
  • Infrared reflectography
  • irr

Underdrawing

DESCRIPTION

- an underdrawing is not readily visible

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

  • photographed by Le Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF)

Condition Reports

Date1992 -

Stratigraphic examination of the background:

  • the background exhibits numerous layers of overpaint: the original paint layers shown a layer which probably contains azurite underlaid with a greyish-brown layer and overlaid by two layers containing cobalt

[Paris, C2RMF, numéro de reference: F1194]

  • examined by E. Martin
  • examined by A. Duval
  • examined by M. Eveno

Conservation History

Date10. 1993 -

Traitement de la couche pictorale: nettoyage, enlèvement des repeints, allégement du vernis, reintegration illusioniste

[Paris, C2RMF, numéro de reference: F1194]

  • conservation treatment by R. Moreira

Date1989 -

Renforcement des Joints et cassures, bouchages des galleries et doublage avec des blocs de balsa (cf. Rapport).

[Paris, C2RMF, numéro de reference: F1194]

  • conservation treatment by P. Mandron

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

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