Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes

Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes

Title

Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes

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Painting on beech wood

Medium

Painting on beech wood

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The Virgin is shown seated at the centre of the image, wearing a red dress and a blue cloak. She holds the infant Christ with her right hand. He stands on her lap and is about to place a grape in her mouth, taken from the bunch held by the

The Virgin is shown seated at the centre of the image, wearing a red dress and a blue cloak. She holds the infant Christ with her right hand. He stands on her lap and is about to place a grape in her mouth, taken from the bunch held by the Virgin in her left hand. The background is dark.

Attributions
Lucas Cranach the Younger
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Younger

[Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l13036/lot.25.html?locale=en; accessed 20-03-2019] [Exhib. Cat. St Petersburg 2016, 158, no. 30] [Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, 134, no. 32]

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Expertise E. Buchner [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 389]

Production dates
after 1537
about 1537

Production dates

after 1537

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about 1537

[Exhib. Cat. St Petersburg 2016, 158, no. 30] [Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, 134, no. 32]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 77.7 x 57.1 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 77.7 x 57.1 cm

  • [Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l13036/lot.25.html?locale=en; accessed 20-03-2019]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the right, centre: serpent with dropped wings, facing left; in yellow paint

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the right, centre: serpent with dropped wings, facing left; in yellow paint

  • [cda 2019]

Inscriptions and Labels
  • inscribed on a label on the reverse in an old hand:
    'Tabla original de Luca Cranach./ Lla... Muller/ Nacio …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

    • inscribed on a label on the reverse in an old hand:

  • 'Tabla original de Luca Cranach./ Lla... Muller/ Nacio en Cranach cliosesi...e barnberg nEn 1472, Nacio Murio/ en Weimar en 1552 Escu...Alemana/La firma del autur...convales y/ pintor del Duque de Savolla...de 1509.'

  • [Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l13036/lot.25.html?locale=en; accessed 20-03-2019]

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P251
FR (1978) Nr.
FR389
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P251/

Provenance

  • with Pico Cellini Gallery, Rome, 1959
  • Munich art market, 1967
  • acquired there or soon after by Friedrich Flick (1883-1972)
  • bequeathed by the above to the grandfather of the former owner
  • 04.12.2013 sold by Sotheby's, London
    [Sotheby's online database; http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/old-master-british-paintings-evening-l13036/lot.25.html?locale=en; accessed 20-03-2019]

Exhibitions

Moscow 2016, no. 32
St Petersburg 2016, no. 30

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016 134, 135 032 Fig. p. 135
EditorThe Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
TitleKranachi: mezdi Renessansom i Man'erizmom / The Cranachs. Between the renaissance and mannerism
Place of PublicationMoscow
Year of Publication2016
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016 158 030
AuthorMaria Pavlovna Garlova
EditorThe State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
TitleKranachi: mezdi Renessansom i Man'erizmom / The Cranachs. Between the renaissance and mannerism
Place of PublicationSt. Petersburg
Year of Publication2016
Show Literature
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 389
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
Show Literature
  • Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes, after 1537

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