Christ blessing

Christ blessing

Title

Christ blessing

[cda 2019]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[handwritten annotation (Rosenberg?) on the reverse of a photograph in the D. Koepplin Archive]

Christ is shown as a half length figure against a dark background, facing the viewer. He has raised his right hand in an attitude of blessing and holds a cross in his left hand.

Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attributions

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[cda 2019]

Lucas Cranach the Younger

(?) [cda 2019]

Production date
1548

Production date

1548

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 83 × 58 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 83 × 58 cm

  • [handwritten annotation (Rosenberg?) on the reverse of a photograph in the D. Koepplin Archive, 1963]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the left edge above the shoulder: serpent with dropped wings and dated under the inscription '1548'

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the left edge above the shoulder: serpent with dropped wings and dated under the inscription '1548'

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscription at the the upper edge: 'QVI NON ACCIPTT CRVCEM SVAMET SEOVITVR / ME NON EST ME DIGNVS . …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • Inscription at the the upper edge: 'QVI NON ACCIPTT CRVCEM SVAMET SEOVITVR / ME NON EST ME DIGNVS . MAT . 10 / 15 48'

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P307
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P307/

Provenance

  • 1659 Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the Imperial collection, Vienna (kaiserliche Sammlung Wien)
  • 1929 Galerie Haberstock, Berlin
  • Thyssen [?]
  • 25.11.1976 at Lempertz, Cologne, auction 555, no. 424, pl. 33
  • June 1980 at Lempertz, Cologne, auction 578, no. 40, pl. 2
    [handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the reverse of a photograph in the D. Koepplin Archive]
  • Christ blessing, 1548

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