Madonna Nursing the Child

Madonna Nursing the Child

Title

Madonna Nursing the Child

[cda 2015]

Painting on canvas (transferred?)

Medium

Painting on canvas (transferred?)

[E-mail correspondence Heydenreich, 2012]

The Virgin is represented breastfeeding the infant Christ, while looking out of the picture at the viewer. The half-length depiction is shown in front of a curtain held up by two angels.

[Görres, cda 2016]

Attributions
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attributions

Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

[cda, 2015]

Lucas Cranach the Younger

[Postcard Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]

Production date
about 1500 - 1599

Production date

about 1500 - 1599

[cda 2015]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 48 x 35.5 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 48 x 35.5 cm

  • [email correspondence Heydenreich, 2012]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P116
FR (1978) Nr.
FR388M
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P116/

Provenance

  • 1895 gift of Luis Ehrlich to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • 27 March 1956 deaccessioned, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, lot 10
    [email correspondence Heydenreich, 2012]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 388M
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 87 313k (u.)
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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  • Madonna Nursing the Child, about 1500 - 1599

Images

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Versions

The Virgin and Child
  • The Virgin and Child, after 1537
  • AT_KHM_GG5675
  • Painting
  • Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
The Virgin and Child (Maria lactans)
  • The Virgin and Child (Maria lactans), about 1500 - 1599
  • DE_BStGS_WAF737
  • Painting
  • Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen
Madonna and Child with angels
  • Madonna and Child with angels, about 1540
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P528
  • Painting
  • Private Collection

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