Hercules and Omphale

Hercules and Omphale

Title

Hercules and Omphale

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 274A]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Max J. Friedländer Archive]

Hercules sits at the centre of this vertical format painting, flanked by Omphale's servants. While the hero looks to the right, the servants have already begun to place a white cloth like a bonnet on his head. He holds a spun thread in his hands, one of the servants holds …

Hercules sits at the centre of this vertical format painting, flanked by Omphale's servants. While the hero looks to the right, the servants have already begun to place a white cloth like a bonnet on his head. He holds a spun thread in his hands, one of the servants holds the distaff. The two partridges hanging in each of the upper corners have every appearance of a still-life.

[Görres, cda 2014]

Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[page of the Auc. Cat. Sotheby's New York in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2008]

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 274A]

Production date
1531

Production date

1531

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 81 x 118 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 81 x 118 cm

  • [Max J. Friedländer Archive]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia and date at the top: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1531'

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia and date at the top: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1531'

  • [cda 2014]

Inscriptions and Labels
  • at the top edge: 'HERCVLEIS MANIBVS DANT LIDAE PENSA PVELLAE
    IMPERIVM DOMINAE FERT DEVS ILLE SVAE
    SIC ETIAM INGENTES …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • at the top edge:

  • 'HERCVLEIS MANIBVS DANT LIDAE PENSA PVELLAE

  • IMPERIVM DOMINAE FERT DEVS ILLE SVAE

  • SIC ETIAM INGENTES ANIMOS INSANA VOLVPTAS

  • ET DOMITO MOLLIS PECTORE FRANGIT AMOR'

  • [cda 2014]

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P023
FR (1978) Nr.
FR274A
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P023/

Provenance

  • 5 June 1917 auction at Lepke, Berlin, No. 25
  • Collection Kolasinski, Warsaw
  • 11 March 1933 auction Paffrath, Düsseldorf, Lot 23
    [letter D. Koepplin to Sotheby's New York in the Archive D. Koepplin, 11.2007]
  • 7 April 1966 at Sotheby's New York, Lot 16
    1. Jan. 2008 at Sotheby`s New York, Lot 29
      [page of the Auc. Cat. Sotheby's New York in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2008]

After Koepplin, the information in Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 about the provenance respective Sotheby Parke Bernet 1976 and Minnesota Museum of Art belong to a copy after this painting.
[letter D. Koepplin to Sotheby's New York in the Archive D. Koepplin, 11.2007]

Exhibitions

Dallas 1951-1966

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 274N
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Author & Rights: Private Collection
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