Reclining Water Nymph

Reclining Water Nymph

Titles

Reclining Water Nymph

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 404]

Sleeping Diana

[Koller online database, accessed 10.09.2021]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 404]

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 2016]

Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Younger
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Younger

'possibly L. Cranach the Younger' [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 404]

Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger

Expertise: Ludwig Meyer, 16.3.2011.
[Koller online database, accessed 10.09.2021]

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 404]

Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder

[D. Koepplin in note, Jan. 1969] according to [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 404]

Production dates
after 1537
about 1537 - 1540

Production dates

after 1537

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 404]

about 1537 - 1540

[Ludwig Meyer, Koller online database, accessed 10.09.2021]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 47.5 x 73 cm

Dimensions

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia center, on the well: serpent with dropped wings, facing left

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia center, on the well: serpent with dropped wings, facing left

  • [cda 2016]

Inscriptions and Labels

None. No inscription in field top left.
[cda 2016]

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • None. No inscription in field top left.

  • [cda 2016]

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P134
FR (1978) Nr.
FR404
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P134/

Provenance

  • Collection of Leontine Goldschmitt, Heidelberg.
  • Collection of Oberbaurat Hampe, Heidelberg.
  • Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York.
  • Heinz Kisters Collection, Kreuzlingen.
  • Galerie Meissner, Zürich, 1963.
  • private collection, Switzerland, 1969.
  • auction, Fischer, Lucerne, 1970, lot 324 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder).
  • private collection, Germany
  • sold at Koller, Zürich, 23.03.2014, lot 3008
    [Koller online database, accessed 10.09.2021]

Exhibitions

Bregenz 1965, no. 26

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Cat. Coburg 2018 92, fn. 20 under no. 15
AuthorKlaus Weschenfelder
TitleCranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication2018
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 152 404 404
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Exhib. Cat. Bregenz 1965 026 Fig. 10
AuthorOscar Sandner
TitleMeisterwerke der Malerei aus Privatsammlungen im Bodenseegebiet
Place of PublicationBregenz
Year of Publication1965
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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]

  • Reclining Water Nymph, after 1537

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