Recto: The Virgin sits with the infant Christ at the left edge of the composition and receives a gift from the eldest king, who kneels before her. Behind him are the second king and Friedrich III of Saxony in the role of the third wise man.
Verso: A full-length representation
Recto: The Virgin sits with the infant Christ at the left edge of the composition and receives a gift from the eldest king, who kneels before her. Behind him are the second king and Friedrich III of Saxony in the role of the third wise man.
Verso: A full-length representation of St Augustine, wearing bishop's vestments and standing on a thin strip of ground against a black background. The saint is turned to the left and holds a book in his hands on which his attribute of the pierced heart is placed, as well as a crosier.
[Görres, cda 2017]
- Attribution
- Anonymous Master from the Cranach Workshop
Attribution
Anonymous Master from the Cranach Workshop | 'responsible for the Mittenwald retable' [Heydenreich 2016, 147-149] |
- Production date
- 1516
Production date
1516 | [central panel dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 92.5 x 31 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 92.5 x 31 cm
[Sotheby's, Munich, 5 Oct 2005, lot 27; http://www.sothebys.com/de/auctions/ecatalogue/2005/property-from-the-royal-house-of-hanover-mm0986/lot.27.html; accessed 23 Feb 2016]
- Signature / Dating
Central panel dated at the bottom with '1516'
Signature / Dating
Central panel dated at the bottom with '1516'
[cda 2017]
- Owner
- Private Collection
- Repository
- Private Collection
- CDA ID
- PRIVATE_NONE-P142c
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P142c/