Portrait of a Woman

Title

Portrait of a Woman

[cda 2017]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/node/228233#infos-principales] (accessed 30-08-2017)

A half-length portrait of a lady, facing left against a green background. Her hands are folded and she is dressed in plain attire.

Attributions: Hans Cranach
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Hans Cranach	[http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/node/228233#infos-principales] (accessed 30-08-2017) [Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 701, under No. 625]
Lucas Cranach the Elder	'formerly attributed to Lucas Cranach l'Ancien' [http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/node/228233#infos-principales] (accessed 30-08-2017)

Production dates: about 1514 - 1537
about 1534

Production dates

about 1514 - 1537	infos-principales] (accessed 30-08-2017)
about 1534	The portrait is probably the pendant piece to the dated Portrait of a Bearded Man by Hans Cranach: ES_MTB_109-1949-1 [cda 2017]

Dimensions: infos-principales] (accessed 30-08-2017)

Dimensions

infos-principales] (accessed 30-08-2017)

Signature / Dating: None

Owner: Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville des Paris
Repository: Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville des Paris
Location: Paris

CDA ID: F_PPP_PTUCK4
FR (1978) Nr.: FR349F
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/F_PPP_PTUCK4/

Provenance

October 1921 donated by Edward and Julia Tuck
[http://parismuseescollections.paris.fr/en/node/228233#infos-principales] (accessed 30-08-2017)

Exhibitions

Zurich 1947

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

139-140

No. 349F

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Editor	G. Schwartz
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Basel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1979

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Research History / Discussion

This female portrait was probably conceived together with the Portrait of a bearded man [ES_MTB_109-1949-1] in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, Madrid, as a marriage diptych.

[Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974, 701, under No. 625]

Portrait of a Woman, about 1514 - 1537

Images

Technical studies

2016Technical examination / Scientific analysis

Infrared reflectography

Underdrawing

DESCRIPTION

- the line of the underdrawing cannot readily be separated from the painted contours; the underdrawing was probably carefully executed with a fine brush and not corrected during the subsequent painting process.

[Sandner, Smith-Contini, Heydenreich, cda 2017]

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

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