Christ Crucified and an unknown Donor

Christ Crucified and an unknown Donor

Title

Christ Crucified and an unknown Donor

[cda 2017]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Exhib. Cat. Düsseldorf 2017, 186, no. 91]

Shown in front view the monolithic form of the crucifix stands out against the undifferentiated black background. Drops of blood cover Christ's slender body, the stigmata mark his limbs and his loincloth puffs out ornamentally either side of him in a fashion characteristic of Cranach. Christ's head is inclined to

Shown in front view the monolithic form of the crucifix stands out against the undifferentiated black background. Drops of blood cover Christ's slender body, the stigmata mark his limbs and his loincloth puffs out ornamentally either side of him in a fashion characteristic of Cranach. Christ's head is inclined to the left, where the donor is shown with a closed book in his hands and in accordance with the words of the psalm he recognises Christ as his Redeemer.

[Görres, Exhib. Cat. Düsseldorf 2017, 186, No. 91]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder (and Workshop)

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder (and Workshop)

[Exhib. Cat. Düsseldorf 2017, 186, No. 91]

Production date
153[8]

Production date

153[8]

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 52.5 x 36.5 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 52.5 x 36.5 cm

  • [Exhib. Cat. Düsseldorf 2017, 186, No. 91]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the bottom right: serpent and dated '153[.]'

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the bottom right: serpent and dated '153[.]'

Inscriptions and Labels
  • bottom right: 'PROTECTOR ET REDEMPTOR MEVS IN IPSO SPERAVIT COR MEVM ET ADIVTVS SVM'
    ('The Lord protects and defends …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

    • bottom right: 'PROTECTOR ET REDEMPTOR MEVS IN IPSO SPERAVIT COR MEVM ET ADIVTVS SVM'

  • ('The Lord protects and defends me; I trust in him. He gives me help and makes me glad; I praise him with joyful songs' [Psalm 28,7])

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P170
FR (1978) Nr.
FR378D
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P170/

Provenance

  • 1931 the property of Paul a. Jurschewitz, Paris
    [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 146, no. 378D]

Exhibitions

Düsseldorf 2017, no. 91
Lübeck 2021, no. 13

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Lübeck 2021 186 013 Fig. p. 186
EditorDagmar Täube
TitleLucas Cranach der Ältere und Hans Kemmer. Meistermaler zwischen Renaissance und Reformation [Lübeck, St. Annen-Museum]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2021
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Düsseldorf 2017 186 No. 91
EditorGunnar Heydenreich, Daniel Görres, Beat Wismer
TitleLucas Cranach der Ältere. Meister - Marke - Moderne. [anlässlich der Ausstellung "Cranach. Meister - Marke - Moderne", Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 08. April 2017 - 30. Juli 2017]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2017
Show Literature
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 146 No. 378D
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
Show Literature

Research History / Discussion

By renouncing the scenic context in this depiction of the crucifixion and by inserting figures varying in scale the work essentially strives to visualize homage. In this capacity it could be used equally by followers of both the new and old faiths. Within the oeuvre of Cranach and his workshop there are similar representations that sometimes show Albrecht of Brandenburg, a key opponent to Luther (FR 183), and sometimes the protestant Prince Joachim I of Anhalt (private collection) under the cross. Already in a woodcut from about 1515 the electoral secretary Georg Spalatin is shown in a similar fashion.

[Görres, Exhib. Cat. Düsseldorf 2017, 186, No. 91]

  • Christ Crucified and an unknown Donor, 153[8]

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Technical studies

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Underdrawing

DESCRIPTION

- an underdrawing is not readily visible

[Sandner, Smith-Contini, Heydenreich, cda 2019]

  • photographed by Gunnar Heydenreich
  • photographed by Ingo Sandner

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