Jesus and the Woman caught in Adultery

Jesus and the Woman caught in Adultery

Titles

Jesus and the Woman caught in Adultery

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 216]

A Woman taken in Adultery

[Cat. Budapest 2003, 31]

Painting on limewood

Medium

Painting on limewood

[Cat. Budapest 2003, 31]

A half-length figurative compostion against a dark background. Christ stands in the centre and points with his right hand at the adulteress, while holding her wrist with his left hand. She has lowered her eyes. A man stands at the left edge with a stone and a catapult and glowers

A half-length figurative compostion against a dark background. Christ stands in the centre and points with his right hand at the adulteress, while holding her wrist with his left hand. She has lowered her eyes. A man stands at the left edge with a stone and a catapult and glowers at Christ. Other men are present and either look at each other, at Christ or at the viewer.

[Herrschaft, cda 2014]

Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Hans Cranach

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Cat. Budapest 2003, 31]

Hans Cranach

'Lucas Cranach d. Ä. oder Hans Cranach' [Schenk zu Schweinsberg 1966, 41]

Production date
1532

Production date

1532

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 82.5 x 121 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 82.5 x 121 cm

  • [Cat. Budapest 2003, 31]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the top, centre: serpent and dated '1532'

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the top, centre: serpent and dated '1532'

Inscriptions and Labels

at the upper edge: 'WER VNDER EVCH AN SVND IST DER WERFFE DEN ERSTEN STEIN AVEF SI'
[Görres, …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • at the upper edge:

  • 'WER VNDER EVCH AN SVND IST DER WERFFE DEN ERSTEN STEIN AVEF SI'

  • [Görres, cda 2014]

Owner
Szépmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Repository
Szépmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
Location
Budapest
CDA ID
HU_SMB_146
FR (1978) Nr.
FR216
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/HU_SMB_146/

Provenance

  • 1871 collection Esterházy
    [Cat. Budapest 2003, 31]

Exhibitions

Dresden 1899, No. 56
Tokio 1979, No. 13
Nuremberg 1983, No. 502
Düsseldorf 2017, No. 111

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Mayer 2021 107 Fig. 5
AuthorMiriam Mayer
TitleInschriften und Signaturen. Überlegungen zur Verwendung von Schrift in ausgewählten Werken von Hans Kemmer.
Publicationin Dagmar Täube, ed., Lucas Cranach der Ältere und Hans Kemmer. Meistermaler zwischen Renaissance und Reformation [Lübeck, St. Annen-Museum]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2021
Pages103-113
Exhib. Cat. Düsseldorf 2017 205 No. 111
EditorGunnar Heydenreich, Daniel Görres, Beat Wismer
TitleLucas Cranach der Ältere. Meister - Marke - Moderne. [anlässlich der Ausstellung "Cranach. Meister - Marke - Moderne", Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 08. April 2017 - 30. Juli 2017]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2017
Görres 2017 B 48 111
AuthorDaniel Görres
TitleDer Mönch und der Maler - Luther und Cranach als Vermittler eines neuen Glaubens
Publicationin Gunnar Heydenreich, Daniel Görres, Beat Wismer, eds., Lucas Cranach der Ältere. Meister - Marke - Moderne. [Exhib. Cat. Düsseldorf 2017]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2017
Link https://lucascranach.org/application/files/4016/7870/1696/Goerres_2017_Der_Moench_und_der_Maler.pdf
Pages44-51
Exhib. Cat. Prague 2016 104, 105
EditorOlga Kotková
TitleCranach. Ze všech stran. From all sides.
Place of PublicationPrague
Year of Publication2016
Pages16-180
Aikema 2010 26 Fig. 7, p. 25
AuthorBernard Aikema
TitleCranach. A different Renaissance
Publicationin Anna Coliva, Bernhard Aikema, eds., Cranach l'altro rinascimento, a different Renaissance, Exhib.Cat. Rome
Place of PublicationRome
Year of Publication2010
Pages13-33
Exhib. Cat. Prague 2005 98-100 (English version 39, 40) under no. 21 Fig. p. 99
EditorObrazárna Pražského hradu, Kaliopi Chamonikola
TitlePod znamením okrídleného hada. Lucas Cranach a ceské zeme. Under the winged Serpent. Lucas Cranach and the Czech Land
Place of PublicationPrague
Year of Publication2005
Cat. Budapest 2003 31
EditorIldikó Ember, István Takács
TitleMuseum of Fine Arts Budapest. Old Masters' Gallery. Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3: German, Austrian, Bohemian and British Paintings
Volume3
Place of PublicationBudapest
Year of Publication2003
Heydenreich 1998 A 184
AuthorGunnar Heydenreich
TitleHerstellung, Grundierung und Rahmung der Holzbildträger in den Werkstätten Lucas Cranachs d.Ä.
Publicationin Ingo Sandner, Wartburg-Stiftung Eisenach and Fachhochschule Köln, eds., Unsichtbare Meisterzeichnungen auf dem Malgrund. Cranach und seine Zeitgenossen, Exhib. Cat. Eisenach
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication1998
Pages181-200
Emmendörffer 1997 99
AuthorChristoph Emmendörffer
TitleHans Kemmer. Ein Lübecker Maler der Reformationszeit
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1997
Cat. Budapest 1990 207 No. 121
AuthorZsuzsa Urbach
TitleMeisterwerke des Museums der Bildenden Künste
Place of PublicationBudapest
Year of Publication1990
Exhib. Cat. Nuremberg 1983 380 No. 502
EditorGerhard Bott
TitleMartin Luther und die Reformation in Deutschland. Ausstellung zum 500. Geburtstag Martin Luthers
Place of PublicationFrankfurt a. M.
Year of Publication1983
Andersson 1981 52
AuthorChristiane D. Anderson
TitleReligiöse Bilder Cranachs im Dienste der Reformation
Publicationin L.W. Spitz, ed., Humanismus und Reformation als kulturelle Kräfte in der Deutschen Geschichte
Place of PublicationBerlin, New York
Year of Publication1981
Pages43-76
Christensen 1979 131
AuthorCarl C. Christensen
TitleArt and the reformation in Germany
Place of PublicationDetroit
Year of Publication1979
Exhib. Cat. Tokyo 1979 No. 13
Authorn. a.
TitleExhibition of Famed Paintings Owned by the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and the National Gallery
Place of PublicationTokyo
Year of Publication1979
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 112 No. 216 Fig. 216
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
Schade 1974 Pl. 186
AuthorWerner Schade
TitleDie Malerfamilie Cranach
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1974
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schade1974
Hintzenstern 1972 87
AuthorHerbert von Hintzenstern
TitleLucas Cranach d. Ä. Altarbilder aus der Reformationszeit
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1972
Végh 1972 Pl. 31, 32
AuthorJános Végh
TitleDeutsche Tafelbilder des 16. Jahrhunderts
Place of PublicationBudapest
Year of Publication1972
Cat. Budapest 1967 164-165
AuthorAndor Pigler
TitleKatalog der Galerie Alter Meister I-II
Place of PublicationBudapest
Year of Publication1967
Schenk zu Schweinsberg 1966 41
AuthorEberhard Schenk zu Schweinsberg
TitleDie früheste Fassung des Gemäldes der Ehebrecherin von Lukas Cranach d. Ä.Schenk
JournalKunst in Hessen und am Mittelrhein
Issue6
Year of Publication1966
Pages33-42
Thulin 1955 8, 163
AuthorOskar Thulin
TitleCranach-Altäre der Reformation
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1955
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 132 Fig. 132
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932

Research History / Discussion

earliest dated example of this subject

[Cat. Budapest 2003, 31]

  • Jesus and the Woman caught in Adultery, 1532

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Technical studies

06. 2014Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • Infrared Reflectography
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Underdrawing

DESCRIPTION

- an underdrawing is not readily visible

[Smith, Sandner, Heydenreich, cda 2014]

  • photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich
  • photographed by Ingo Sandner

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