Epithaph for Franz Thim, central panel: Christ overcoming Death and Devil

Epithaph for Franz Thim, central panel: Christ overcoming Death and Devil

Title

Epithaph for Franz Thim, central panel: Christ overcoming Death and Devil

[cda 2019]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Lempertz online database: https://www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/lot/903-1/1036-lucas-cranach-d-j-umkreis.html; accessed 26-03-2019]

Christ vanquishing death and the devil, beneath a donor pair with their children (the majority of the infants are already identified as deceased) and alliance coat of arms.

The renaissance style frame is 19th or 20th century.

[Lempertz online database: https://www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/lot/903-1/1036-lucas-cranach-d-j-umkreis.html; accessed 26-03-2019]

Attributions
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Younger
Veit Thim ?

Attributions

Circle of Lucas Cranach the Younger

[Lempertz online database: https://www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/lot/903-1/1036-lucas-cranach-d-j-umkreis.html; accessed 26-03-2019]

Veit Thim ?

[Lempertz online database: https://www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/lot/903-1/1036-lucas-cranach-d-j-umkreis.html; accessed 26-03-2019]

Production date
before 1562

Production date

before 1562

[Lempertz online database: https://www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/lot/903-1/1036-lucas-cranach-d-j-umkreis.html; accessed 26-03-2019]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 100 x 86 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 100 x 86 cm

  • [Lempertz online database: https://www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/lot/903-1/1036-lucas-cranach-d-j-umkreis.html; accessed 26-03-2019]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P277A
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P277A/

Provenance

  • in 1527 Franz Thim is listed in the civil records of Weimar, unfortunately no evidence relating to the epitaph was found in any of the churches in Weimar. It may have been created for the Thim family's private house.
  • 19.05.2007 auctioned at Lempertz, Cologne, auction 903, lot 1036
    [Lempertz online database: https://www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/lot/903-1/1036-lucas-cranach-d-j-umkreis.html; accessed 26-03-2019]

Research History / Discussion

This is an interesting example of protestant iconography from the Thuringian heartland of the reformation. The triptych may be a work by Veit Thiem, one of Franz Thim’s sons; he was a pupil or an apprentice in Lucas Cranach the Younger’s workshop. It would seem reasonable to assume that Veit Thiem painted the epitaph for his father himself. The central panel already belonged to the family before Franz Thiem passed away, whereas the wing panels were commissioned about 1570, after the death of the wife and mother, by the children to create an epitaph for their parents. [Lempertz online database: https://www.lempertz.com/de/kataloge/lot/903-1/1036-lucas-cranach-d-j-umkreis.html; accessed 26-03-2019]

  • Epithaph for Franz Thim, central panel: Christ overcoming Death and Devil, before 1562

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