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

[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

Dimensions of support: 47.5 x 73 cm
[Koller online database, accessed 10.09.2021]
Dimensions of support: 48 x 72.5 cm
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 404]

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

Author	Klaus Weschenfelder
Title	Cranach 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 Publication	Regensburg
Year of Publication	2018

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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

152

404

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Editor	G. Schwartz
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Basel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1979

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Exhib. Cat. Bregenz 1965

026

Fig. 10

Author	Oscar Sandner
Title	Meisterwerke der Malerei aus Privatsammlungen im Bodenseegebiet
Place of Publication	Bregenz
Year of Publication	1965

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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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