The Deposition

The Deposition

Title

The Deposition

[Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2004/old-master-paintings-part-two-l04034/lot.162.html?locale=en; accessed 21-03-2019]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

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The unusually elongated format of the present panel indicates that it originally served as a wing for a triptych, the central panel of which would probably have shown the Crucifixion. The composition does not appear to relate to any published works by Lucas Cranach the Elder or the Younger.

[Sotheby's online

The unusually elongated format of the present panel indicates that it originally served as a wing for a triptych, the central panel of which would probably have shown the Crucifixion. The composition does not appear to relate to any published works by Lucas Cranach the Elder or the Younger.

[Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2004/old-master-paintings-part-two-l04034/lot.162.html?locale=en; accessed 21-03-2019]

Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attributions

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[cda 2019]

Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Younger

[Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2004/old-master-paintings-part-two-l04034/lot.162.html?locale=en; accessed 21-03-2019]

Production date
about 1515 - 1520

Production date

about 1515 - 1520

[cda 2019]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 86.5 x 36.7 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 86.5 x 36.7 cm

  • [Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2004/old-master-paintings-part-two-l04034/lot.162.html?locale=en; accessed 21-03-2019]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P243
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P243/

Provenance

  • 09.12.2004 sold by Sotheby's, London
    [Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2004/old-master-paintings-part-two-l04034/lot.162.html?locale=en; accessed 21-03-2019]
  • The Deposition, about 1515 - 1520

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