Saint John the Evangelist

Saint John the Evangelist

Title

Saint John the Evangelist

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Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2020]

The panel depicts St John the Evangelist, facing left against a blue background and standing on pebbled terrain. Around his head is a radiating nimbus-like halo. It appears to be the missing companion to a panel depicting Saint John the Baptist [PRIVATE_NONE-P010]. The two paintings were presumably originally opposing wings

The panel depicts St John the Evangelist, facing left against a blue background and standing on pebbled terrain. Around his head is a radiating nimbus-like halo. It appears to be the missing companion to a panel depicting Saint John the Baptist [PRIVATE_NONE-P010]. The two paintings were presumably originally opposing wings of an altarpiece. The compositions of the Evangelist would appear to be taken from a print by Cranach, but here in reverse.

[cda 2020]

Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Circle of Albrecht Altdorfer

Attributions

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Christie's online database: https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/workshop-of-lucas-cranach-i-saint-john-4266301-details.aspx?; accessed 28.02.2020] [Exhib. Cat. St Petersburg 2016, 124, no. 16] [Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, 120, no. 27]

Circle of Albrecht Altdorfer

[Weyer, Unger 1852, no. 34]

Production dates
about 1515
about 1518 - 1520

Production dates

about 1515

[cda 2020]

about 1512

[Exhib. Cat. St Petersburg 2016, 124, no. 16] [Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, 120, no. 27]

about 1518 - 1520

[Koepplin, letter 25.02.2004, Koepplin Archive]; [Meyer, Expertise 08.01.2004, Koepplin Archive]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 77.2 x 29.2 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 77.2 x 29.2 cm

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Signature / Dating

none

Inscriptions and Labels

none

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • none

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P327
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P327/

Connected Works

St John Baptist
  • St John Baptist, about 1518 - 1520
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P010
  • Painting
  • Private Collection

Provenance

  • Johann Peter Weyer (1794-1864), Cologne
  • acquired in 1862 by Präsident Bessel, Cleves
  • sold by Christie's, London, 21.04.2004, sale 6893, lot 56
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Exhibitions

Moscow 2016, no. 27
St Petersburg 2016, no. 16

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016 120, 121 027 Fig. p. 121
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
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Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016 124, 125 016 Fig.
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
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Kier, Zehnder 1998 454 34
EditorH. Kier, F. G. Zehnder
TitleLust und Verlust II, Corpus-Band zu Kölner Gemäldesammlungen 1800-1860
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication1998
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Vey 1966 205 30
AuthorH. Vey
TitleJohann PeterWeyer, seine Gemäldesammlung seine Kunstliebe
JournalWallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch: Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte
Issue28
Year of Publication1966
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Weyer, Unger 1852 34 Fig.
AuthorJohann Peter Weyer, M. Unger
TitleBeschriebung des Inhaltes der Sammlung von Gemälden älterer Meister des Herrn Johann Peter Weyer in Coeln
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication1852
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Research History / Discussion

'Dr. Dieter Koepplin noted that this panel is almost certainly the missing companion to the Saint John the Baptist sold, Neumeister, Munich, 14 September 1988, lot 465, as Lucas Cranach the Elder. That work was accompanied by a certificate from Ernst Buchner, dated 1957, endorsing the attribution and dating the picture to circa 1515. Prior to that, it had appeared at auction from the Jäger collection, Lepke, Berlin, 21 October 1902 (recorded in M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, London, 1978, p. 92, no. 110c, as datable to c. 1518-20), as measuring 76 x 30 cm., seeming from its illustration to have an analogous addition to the left hand side as the present picture does to the right.'

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  • Saint John the Evangelist, about 1515

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