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
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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 | [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] |
| 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/
- inscribed on a label on the reverse in an old hand: