Trinity and purgatory

Title

[cda 2019]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2005/old-master-paintings-evening-sale-l05033/lot.29.html?locale=en; accessed 08-03-2019]

This picture may have been painted as part of a cycle. Another painting of the Martyrdom of Saint Ursula on a similar unusually shaped panel of the same dimensions (private collection) has long been considered a pendant to this. Since the two subjects do not obviously form a pair,

Attribution: Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

'Workshop or close circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder' [Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2005/old-master-paintings-evening-sale-l05033/lot.29.html?locale=en; accessed 08-03-2019]

Production date: about 1515

Production date

about 1515

[Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2005/old-master-paintings-evening-sale-l05033/lot.29.html?locale=en; accessed 08-03-2019]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 48.4 x 62.8 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 48.4 x 62.8 cm
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Signature / Dating: None

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P239
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P239/

Provenance

Freiherr Bernhard von Hornstein, born 1761, who was married to Theresia Countess Preysing zu Alten-Preysing (1765-1804)
his estate and pictures, including the present lot, were sold in 1828 to an ancestor of the present owner
thence by descent
Sotheby's London, Old Master Paintings Evening Sale, 07 December 2005, lot 29
[Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2005/old-master-paintings-evening-sale-l05033/lot.29.html?locale=en; accessed 08-03-2019]
bought by private owner
[cda 2019]

briefumschrift

Ludwig Meyer assumes that they are by the same artist as two wing panels in the Schlosskirche in Chemnitz depicting The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand Christians and The Preaching of a Pope respectively (see I. Sandner, Spätgotische Tafelmalerei in Sachsen, Dresden/Basel 1993, pp. 174, 178, reproduced plates 40 a & b). By the same hand is a panel of curious arched form comparable to the present one, but without the central indentation, depicting The Martyrdom of Saint James, and also in the Schlosskirche, Chemnitz, as well as two further similar panels, depicting The Virgin in Heaven with Saints and The Trinity, in the same church, which could well be by thw same hand. The figure of God the Father in the latter panel is strikingly similar to the one in the present panel. Sandner considers the first three to be the work of an independent pupil of Cranach, circa 1515. Meyer agrees with the dating, but thinks it unlikely that this anonymous Cranach follower could have been an independent Master at this early date.

[cda 2019]

Trinity and purgatory, about 1515

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