Nymph of the Spring

Nymph of the Spring

Title

Nymph of the Spring

[San Diego Museum of Art, revised 2018]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 402]

The water nymph is shown asleep, reclining on the grassy bank of a stream. Her head rests on her angled right arm, her left arm lies next to her body and leads the viewer's eye to the transparent veil that envelops her body without concealing it. The sleeping one's weapons

The water nymph is shown asleep, reclining on the grassy bank of a stream. Her head rests on her angled right arm, her left arm lies next to her body and leads the viewer's eye to the transparent veil that envelops her body without concealing it. The sleeping one's weapons hang on a tree at the right. A stag in the background and a pair of partridges animate the expansive landscape.

[Görres, cda 2014]

Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 402]
[Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1925, No. 86]

Lucas Cranach the Younger

[The San Diego Museum of Art, revised 2018]
[letter D. Koepplin to Turquin in the Archive D. Koepplin, 09.2011]

Production dates
after 1537
about 1540

Production dates

after 1537

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 402]

about 1540

[The San Diego Museum of Art, revised 2018]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 58 x 79 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 58 x 79 cm

  • [San Diego Museum of Art, revised 2018]

  • Dimensions of support: c. 50 x 75 cm

  • [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 402]

  • Dimensions of support: 55.5 x 77.5 cm

  • [Exhib. Cat. Berlin 1925, No. 86]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the right, on the tree: winged serpent with dropped wings, facing left

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the right, on the tree: winged serpent with dropped wings, facing left

  • [cda 2014]

Inscriptions and Labels

In top left corner: 'FONTIS NYMPHA SACRI
SOMNVM NE RVMPF.
QVIESCO:'

[cda 2014]

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • In top left corner:

  • 'FONTIS NYMPHA SACRI

  • SOMNVM NE RVMPF.

  • QVIESCO:'

  • [cda 2014]

Owner
The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Repository
The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Location
San Diego
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P041
FR (1978) Nr.
FR402
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P041/

Provenance

  • 1925 Rudolf Oppenheim Collection, Berlin
  • art sale Berlin
  • in a polish private collection
  • 1932 private collection, Paris
    [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 402]
  • 07 Nov. 2011 Turquin, Experts en Tableaux, Paris (unsold?)
    [page of an Auct. Cat Turquin in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2011]
  • 2014 The Weiss Gallery, London
  • 2018 purchased with funds provided by Toni Bloomberg; Gene and Taffin Ray; an anonymous donor and the Museum's Acquisition Fund
  • San Diego Museum of Art
    [cda 2014]

Exhibitions

Berlin 1925, No. 86

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 393B
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 323
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 1925 21 86
AuthorWilhelm von Bode
EditorKaiser Friedrich-Museums-Verein Berlin
TitleGemälde Alter Meister aus Berliner Besitz [Akademdie der Künste, Berlin]
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1925
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Research History / Discussion

D. Koepplin has seen the painting in 2011 and regards it as a work primarily painted by Cranach the Younger or contributive by Cranach the Elder.

[letter D. Koepplin to Turquin in the Archive D. Koepplin, 09.2011]

  • Nymph of the Spring, after 1537

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Technical studies

Support

- horizontal wood grain, one join

- panel cradled

[notes D. Koepplin in the Archive D. Koepplin, 09.2011]

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