The Virgin and Child in a Sumptuous Landscape

The Virgin and Child in a Sumptuous Landscape

Title

The Virgin and Child in a Sumptuous Landscape

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 88]

Painting on limewood

Medium

Painting on limewood

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 88]

The Virgin looks down at the infant Christ, who she holds in her arms. Her curly hair falls over her shoulders down her back and is covered with a transparent veil over her head. The child looks at his mother while offering her an apple. The figures are depicted in

The Virgin looks down at the infant Christ, who she holds in her arms. Her curly hair falls over her shoulders down her back and is covered with a transparent veil over her head. The child looks at his mother while offering her an apple. The figures are depicted in an opulent landscape with water, architecture and rocks integrated in a varied vegetation.

[Görres, cda 2014]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Wittmann 1998, 170[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 88]

Production date
1518

Production date

1518

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 42 x 30 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 42 x 30 cm

  • [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 88]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia bottom left: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1518'

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia bottom left: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1518'

  • [cda 2014]

Owner
Dom St. Marien, Glogow
Repository
Unknown
Location
Glogau
CDA ID
PL_DMG-Lost_NONE-001
FR (1978) Nr.
FR088
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PL_DMG-Lost_NONE-001/

Provenance

  • since World War II whereabout unknown, formerly Glogau [Glogow], Cathedral St. Mary
  • during World War II brought to the rectory in Landeck, taken away by a Russian Major

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 88]

Exhibitions

Dresden 1899, No. 12
Berlin 1937, No. 33

Literature

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Kowalski 2015 34 p. 34
AuthorWojciech Kowalski
TitleRechtsgrundlagen für Restitutionen von im Krieg verloren gegangenen Kulturgütern
Publicationin Wojciech Kowalski, Monika Kuhnke, eds., Looted and restituted. Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs' efforts to restitute Poland's cultural property lost during World War II
Place of PublicationKrakow
Issue2nd edition
Year of Publication2015
Pages4-37
Exhib. Cat. Brussels 2010 146
EditorBozarbooks & Lannoo, Guido Messling
TitleDie Welt des Lucas Cranach. Ein Künstler im Zeitalter von Dürer, Tizian und Metsys [anlässlich der Ausstellung "Die Welt des Lucas Cranach", Palast der Schönen Künste, Brüssel, 20. Oktober 2010 - 23. Januar 2011]
Place of PublicationBrussels
Year of Publication2010
Heydenreich 1998 A 198
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
Wittmann 1998 169, 170, 172,179 Fig. 20.2
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
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 88
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
Schade 1974 10
AuthorWerner Schade
TitleDie Malerfamilie Cranach
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1974
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schade1974
Lilienfein 1942 39
AuthorHeinrich Lilienfein
TitleLukas Cranach und seine Zeit
Place of PublicationBielefeld
Year of Publication1942
Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1937 21 033 Pl. 33
EditorStaatliche Museen, Berlin
TitleLucas Cranach d. Ä. und Lucas Cranach d. J. Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1937
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 81
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
Schuchardt 1871 155 50
AuthorChristian Schuchardt
TitleLucas Cranach des Aeltern Leben und Werke. Dritter Theil
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1871
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schuchardt1871bd3
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