Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Title

[cda 2015]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[D. Koepplin Archive]

The Virgin is shown breastfeeding the infant Christ under an apple tree. Joseph occupies the centre of the image, and the ox and ass graze in front of him. An expansive landscape is visible in the background.

[Görres, cda 2015]

Attribution: Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder

[D. Koepplin, letter 24 Oct 2007]

Production dates: about 1530
after 1537

Production dates

about 1530	[handwritten annotation on the reverse of a photograph in the D. Koepplin Archive]
after 1537	[http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/ccp/dhm_ccp.php?seite=6&fld_1=5867&fld_3=&auswahl=6&fld_4=&fld_4a=&fld_5=&fld_6=&fld_7=&fld_8=&fld_9=&fld_10=&suchen=Suchen] (accessed 24.09.2015)

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 86 x 57 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 86 x 57 cm
[handwritten annotation on the reverse of a photograph in the D. Koepplin Archive]
88 x 58 cm
[http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/ccp/dhm_ccp.php?seite=6&fld_1=5867&fld_3=&auswahl=6&fld_4=&fld_4a=&fld_5=&fld_6=&fld_7=&fld_8=&fld_9=&fld_10=&suchen=Suchen] (accessed 24.09.2015)

Signature / Dating: None

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P118
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P118/

Provenance

c. 1937 sold by de Bal (Switzerland and Paris) to Hans Wendland, Lucerne (art market, Switzerland)
Theodor Fischer, Lucerne 07.10.1940 (art market, Switzerland)
sold for sfrs. 40.000.- to H.Göring; Gö.Rep p.112 No.6; Hofer - Account books (accessioned 19.11.40, deaccessioned the same), 457-08-68 Fischer Rev.Ber., 19.4.52 p.11, Schr. Saxer 28.1.49 Appendix d. ) [1]
Collection Hermann Göring [2]
1964 returned to Edda and Emmy Göring [3]
Christie's London, 5 Dec 1969
Collection Heinz Kisters, Kreuzlingen [4]

[1][http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/goering/dhm_goering.php?seite=5&fld_0=RMG00486] and [http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/ccp/dhm_ccp.php?seite=6&fld_1=5867&fld_3=&auswahl=6&fld_4=&fld_4a=&fld_5=&fld_6=&fld_7=&fld_8=&fld_9=&fld_10=&suchen=Suchen] (accessed 24.09.2015)
[2][D. Koepplin, letter 24 Oct 2007]
[3] see Fn. 1
[4] [handwritten annotation on the reverse of a photograph in the D. Koepplin Archive]

Rest on the Flight into Egypt, about 1530

Images

Conservation History

Date17.10.1957

flaking paint consolidated with wax along all vertical splits

[http://www.dhm.de/datenbank/ccp/prj_dhm_ccp/displayimg.php?laufnrid=cp069460_1&prj_short=dhm_ccp&format=gr&folder=ccp] (accessed 24.09.2015)

Versions

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Entry with author: <author's name>, 'Rest on the Flight into Egypt', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P118/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})
Entry with no author: 'Rest on the Flight into Egypt', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document, entry or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P118/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})

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