St John Baptist

St John Baptist

Title

St John Baptist

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 110C]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 110C]

St John the Baptist is depicted as a full-length figure against a neutral background, facing right. A narrow radiant nimbus frames his curly hair. He stands on stony ground and wears the characteristic fur robe. He points with two fingers from his right hand at the Lamb of God holding

St John the Baptist is depicted as a full-length figure against a neutral background, facing right. A narrow radiant nimbus frames his curly hair. He stands on stony ground and wears the characteristic fur robe. He points with two fingers from his right hand at the Lamb of God holding the victory banner in front of him.

[Görres, cda 2014]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 110C]

Production dates
about 1518 - 1520
about 1515

Production dates

about 1518 - 1520

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 110C]

about 1515

[expertise Ernst Buchner 1957; copy of the expertise on the reverse of a photograph in the Archive D. Koepplin]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 76 x 30 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 76 x 30 cm

  • [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 110C]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P010
FR (1978) Nr.
FR110C
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P010/

Provenance

  • sold by Jäger, Berlin at Lepke, 21 Oct 1902, No. 78
    [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 110C]

  • 1957 Lempertz, Cologne, auction 447
    [handwritten annotation D. Koepplin next to a picture in the Archive D. Koepplin]

  • 09.1988 auctioned at Neumeister, Munich
    [handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the reverse of a photograph in the Archive D. Koepplin, c. 1988]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 110C
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 097a
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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Research History / Discussion

Expertise by Ernst Buchner 03.02.1957: 'Die umseitig fotographierte Altarflügeltafel "Standfigur des Hln. Johannes d T. mit dem Lamm Gottes" (Holz: 74 x 26 cm) ist nach meiner Überzeugung eine charakteristische Arbeit von Lucas Cranach dem Älteren (1472 - 1553), die um 1515 entstanden sein dürfte.

München 3.II.1957

Ernst Buchner'

(This wing of an altarpiece showing St John the Baptist with the lamb of God (wood: 74 x 26 cm) is im my opinion a characteristic work of Lucas Cranach the Elder about 1515.)

[copy of the expertise on the reverse of a photograph in the Archive D. Koepplin]

Connected Works

Saint John the Evangelist
  • Saint John the Evangelist, about 1515
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P327
  • Painting
  • Private Collection
  • St John Baptist, about 1518 - 1520

Images

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Conservation History

cradled, probably about 1956

[page of an Auct. Cat. (Neumeister?) in the Archive D. Koepplin]

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