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 limewood

Medium

Painting on limewood

[handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the reverse of a photograph, Koepplin Archive]

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.

Attribution: Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[cda 2014]
'wahrscheinlich nicht eigenhändig' (probably not by Cranach himself)
[Handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the reverse of a photograph (1972), Koepplin Archive]

Production date: about 1515 - 1520

Production date

about 1515 - 1520

[cda 2014]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 37 x 27 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 37 x 27 cm
[Handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the reverse of a photograph; Koepplin Archive]

Signature / Dating: None

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P069
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P069/

Provenance

Expertise Friedländer 1939 and Buchner
Private Collection, Cologne
[handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the reverse of a photograph, Koepplin Archive]

The Virgin and Child with St Anne, about 1515 - 1520

Images

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Entry with author: <author's name>, 'The Virgin and Child with St Anne', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P069/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})
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