Charity

Charity

Title

Charity

[Pérez Simón Collection, revised 2013]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Pérez Simón Collection, revised 2013]

Charity, the personification of benevolence, is depicted as a seated woman breastfeeding a child, while being embraced by another. She sits on a stone block next to an apple tree. A small boy has climbed up the tree and throws apples down to a girl below.

[Herrschaft, cda 2015]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Pérez Simón Collection, revised 2013]

Production date
about 1537

Production date

about 1537

[Pérez Simón Collection, revised 2013]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 49.5 x 33 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 49.5 x 33 cm

  • Dimensions including frame: 77 x 61 x 5 cm

  • [Pérez Simón Collection, revised 2013]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia in the bottom right corner of the painting, on the stone bench: winged serpent with elevated wings facing left; in black paint.

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia in the bottom right corner of the painting, on the stone bench: winged serpent with elevated wings facing left; in black paint.

  • [Pérez Simón Collection, revised 2013]

Inscriptions and Labels

Reverse of the panel:

  • centre, right:
    in chalk: 'PK'
  • centre:
  • [Illegible inscription]

Reverse of the frame:

  • at the bottom left:
    in chalk: 'LK …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Reverse of the panel:

    • centre, right:
  • in chalk: 'PK'

    • centre:
    • [Illegible inscription]
  • Reverse of the frame:

    • at the bottom left:
  • in chalk: 'LK 195'

  • Labels on panel and frame(7):

    • centre left on frame:
    1. '4th [/] CMF 15 [?] [/] LDN' (handwritten)
    • bottom left on frame:
    1. 'P. 3604.0498' (handwritten with black ink)
    • top centre on inner frame:
    1. '1' (handwritten)
    • bottom left on inner frame:
    1. 'Sanborns [/] CHARITY (LA CARIDAD [/] 000000010504 [/] [bar code] [/] 0010504
    • top left on support:
    1. 'Cranach d [illegible] [/] 387. (handwritten with black ink)
    • top right on support:
  • 6.[Illegible] 'Bibliotecas, Museos, [/] [Illegible] Nacionales y Archivos- [/] Autorizado para salir del País,[/] Según informe N. 31[/] De 24 de abril de 1947' (printed label completed by hand)

    • centre right on support:
  • 7.Dirección General de Bibliotecas, Museos, [/] Monumentos Nacionales y Archivos- [/] Autorizado para salir del País, [/] Según informe N. 71[/] De 5 de Oct, de 1948' (printed label completed by hand)

  • *Please view the photography of the verso sent with this document.

  • [Pérez Simón Collection, revised 2013]

Owner
Pérez Simón Collection, Mexico City
Repository
Pérez Simón Collection, Mexico City
Location
Mexico City
CDA ID
MX_JAPS_10504
FR (1978) Nr.
FR406C
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/MX_JAPS_10504/

Provenance

  • Max Flersheim, Paris
  • Kleinberger, Paris
  • Glückstadt Collection, Copenhagen, sale, Winkel and Magnussen, Copenhagen, 2- 5 June 1924
  • Mrs. George Rasmussen, Solyst, Klampenborg, Denmark, Christie's, 25 Feb. 1938, lot 161 (285 gns. to Rosenberg)
  • Hochschild Collection, Sotheby`s, 13 Dec. 1978, lot 10
  • Anon. sale, Christie's, 10 July 1987, lot 61
  • Anon. sale, Christie's, 24 May 1991, lot 4

[Pérez Simón Collection, revised 2013]

Exhibitions

Madrid, 2006
Dallas, Texas, 2006
Québec, 2007
Rome, 2008

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Miami 2009 28
AuthorJavier Lumbreras
TitleEl arte de coleccionar arte
Place of Publication[Miami]
Year of Publication2009
Exhib. Cat. Madrid 2006/2007 41 No. 4 Fig.
EditorRoxana Velásquez Martínez del Campo
TitleDe Cranach a Monet: Obras Maestras de la Colección Pérez Simón [Fondazione Memmo, Rome; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Meadows Museum/Dallas; Musée National des Beaux-Arts, Quebec]
Place of Publication[Madrid]
Year of Publication2006
Dallas 2003 4
Authorn. a.
TitleAt the Meadows, Semi-annual guide to exhibitions and programs
Place of PublicationDallas
Year of Publication2003
Mexico City 2003 52, 446 No. 63 Fig. and cover image
EditorRoxana Velásquez, Héctor Tajonar
TitleObras maestras de la Colección JAPS
Place of PublicationMexico City
Year of Publication2003
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 No. 406C
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 89 326c
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
  • Charity, about 1537

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