St Paul

Title

St Paul

[cda 2014]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2014]

Full-length depiction of St Paul with his attributes (a book and a sword), facing left on 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 55 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 113 x 55 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_MNR939
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/F_MdLP_MNR939/

Connected Works

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 939
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=RMG00502]

St Paul, about 1500 - 1599

Images

Documents

Technical studies

Infrared reflectography

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)

Support

- there is an auxillary support attached to the reverse of the wooden support (?)

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

UV-light photography

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

Micro-sampling / cross-sections
Stereomicroscopy

Ground and Imprimatura

- the white ground contains calcium carbonate

Paint Layers and Gilding

- lead yellow was employed

- the blue background probably consists of a layer of coarsely ground azurite underlaid with black

- no protein was identified in the cross-sections, probably an oil employed as binding medium

[Paris, C2RMF, numéro de reference: F1193]

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

Conservation History

Date1993 -

Traitement de la couche pictorale: nettoyage, suppression des repeints, allégement du vernis, travail des mastics anciens, reintegration illusioniste, vernissage

[Paris, C2RMF, numéro de reference: F1193]

conservation treatment by R. Moreira

Date1992 -

the blue background appears cloudy after the overpaint containing cobalt was removed
it could not be clearly established whether the revealed paint layer, containing coarsely ground azurite underlaid with black, is original or overpaint

[Paris, C2RMF, numéro de reference: F1193]

created by E. Martin

Date1989 -

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

[Paris, C2RMF, numéro de reference: F1193]

conservation treatment by P. Mandron

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

Entry with author: <author's name>, 'St Paul', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/F_MdLP_MNR939/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})
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