Virgin and Child

Virgin and Child

Title

Virgin and Child

[Mauritshuis online database; accessed 07.04.2022]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Mauritshuis online database; accessed 07.04.2022]

In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, numerous pictures were made of the Virgin and her child Jesus. This Madonna is by the German artist Lucas Cranach. He painted her with a beautiful, round idealised face and long wavy hair. She is looking ahead rather submissively, while her child tries

In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, numerous pictures were made of the Virgin and her child Jesus. This Madonna is by the German artist Lucas Cranach. He painted her with a beautiful, round idealised face and long wavy hair. She is looking ahead rather submissively, while her child tries to pluck a grape - a remarkably playful gesture. Two cherubs are holding up a cloth by way of a baldachin.

[http://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/explore/the-collection/artworks/virgin-and-child-917/#; accessed 6 Oct 2015]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[http://www.mauritshuis.nl/en/explore/the-collection/artworks/virgin-and-child-917/#; accessed 6 Oct 2015]

Production dates
about 1515 - 1520
about 1520

Production dates

about 1515 - 1520

[Mauritshuis online database; accessed 07.04.2022]

about 1520

[Wittmann 1998, 176]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 62.7 x 42 cm

Dimensions

Signature / Dating

Signed

Signature / Dating

Owner
Mauritshuis, Den Haag
Repository
Mauritshuis, Den Haag
Location
The Hague
CDA ID
NL_Mh_917
FR (1978) Nr.
FR130
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/NL_Mh_917/

Provenance

  • before 1906-1928 Prince Lichnowsky, Kuchelna, Silesia
  • 1929 Paul Cassirer Gallery, Berlin and Amsterdam
  • Daniel Wolf, Wassenaar
  • 1932-1940 pledged by Wolf to Hans C.W. Tietje, Amsterdam
  • sold in June 1940 by Tietje to Miedl for 35.000 guilders
  • 1940 Alois Miedl, Amsterdam
  • 1940 W.A. Hofer, Berlin
  • E. Göpel, The Hague
  • Hermann Göring, Berlin
  • Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit (Inv. no. NK 3071)
  • 1953-1955 on loan to the Mauritshuis
  • 1960 transferred
    [Mauritshuis online database; accessed 07.04.2022]

see also: [http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/goering/dhm_goering.php?seite=5&fld_0=RMG00482] (accessed 07.12.2015)

Exhibitions

Berlin 1906, no. 19
Basel 1974, no. 383

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Noble 2015 293
AuthorBonnie Noble
TitleThe Woman of Babylon. Seduction Reformation-Style
Publicationin Elke A. Werner, Anne Eusterschulte, Gunnar Heydenreich, eds., Lucas Cranach der Jüngere und die Reformation der Bilder
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2015
Pages290-297
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Exhib. Cat. Prague 2005 66, 137 (English version 29, 51) under nos. 8, 38
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
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Wittmann 1998 176
AuthorJan Wittmann
TitleDie Bedeutung des Marienbildes im Schaffen Cranachs
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
Link http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/volltexte/2012/2050
Pages169-180
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Schade, Schuttwolf 1994 19
AuthorWerner Schade, Allmuth Schuttwolf
TitleMalerei und Plastik
Publicationin Allmuth Schuttwolf, ed., Gotteswort und Menschenbild. Werke von Cranach und seinen Zeitgenossen, Exhib. Cat. Gotha
Place of PublicationGotha
Year of Publication1994
Pages15-94
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 130
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Exhib. Cat. Basel 1974/1976 533-534 No. 383 Fig. 283
AuthorDieter Koepplin, Tilman Falk
TitleLukas Cranach. Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Druckgraphik
Volume1, 2
Place of PublicationBasel, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1974
Link http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-104522
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 111
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
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Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1906 19
AuthorAlbert E. Brinkmann
TitleAusstellung von Werken Alter Kunst aus dem Privatbesitz der Mitglieder des Kaiser Friedrich-Museums-Vereins
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1906
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