The Virgin and Child with St Anne

The Virgin and Child with St Anne

Title

The Virgin and Child with St Anne

[cda 2014]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Page from an auction catalogue (Sotheby`s) in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2008]

The painting shows St Anne and the Virgin seated in front of an expansive landscape. The naked infant Christ stands on St Anne's knee and is supported by her. He stretches his arms out to the Virgin who bends towards him.

At the left side of the painting a castle stands

The painting shows St Anne and the Virgin seated in front of an expansive landscape. The naked infant Christ stands on St Anne's knee and is supported by her. He stretches his arms out to the Virgin who bends towards him.

At the left side of the painting a castle stands on top of a mountain in the background; on the right side a landscape with a river, a stone bridge and a town stretches out behind a tree.

Attributions: Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Christie's Sale 5965, Old Master and British Paintings Day Sale, 2012, Lot 109]
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Letter W. Schade to Sotheby's London 09.2008 in the Archive D. Koepplin]
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger	[Dorotheum online database: https://www.dorotheum.com/de/l/460840/; accessed 01.09.2020]

Production dates: after 1520
before 1515

Production dates

after 1520	[cda 2018]
before 1515	[Letter W. Schade to Sotheby's London 09.2008 in the Archive D. Koepplin]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 40 x 27 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 40 x 27 cm
[Handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the page of an Auction Catalogue in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2008]
Dimensions of support: 39.2 x 27 cm
[Dorotheum online database: https://www.dorotheum.com/de/l/460840/; accessed 01.09.2020]

Signature / Dating: None

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P068
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P068/

Provenance

formerly private collection, Breslau
08.04.1981 Sotheby's London, No. 88
[Handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the reverse of a photograph in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2008]
30.10.2008 Sotheby's London, No. 9
[Handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the page of an Auction Catalogue (Sotheby's) in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2008]
05.12.2012, Christie's, Old Master & British Paintings Sale, London, No. 153 [Christie's Online database; http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/searchresults.aspx?searchtype=p; Sale 5965, Old Master and British Paintings Day Sale, 2012, Lot 109; accessed 23 Jan 2018]
private collection, Germany
auction Dorotheum, Vienna, 17.10.2017, lot 7
private collection
[Dorotheum online database: https://www.dorotheum.com/de/l/460840/; accessed 01.09.2020]

Research History / Discussion

According to Werner Schade this painting was 'probably created somewhat earlier than the version in Munich (FR67)'. [Letter from W. Schade to Sotheby’s London 09.2008 in the D. Koepplin Archive]

The Virgin and Child with St Anne, after 1520

Images

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