The Virgin and Child

Title

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood	[Handwritten on the reverse of a photograph; Koepplin Archive]
Painting on spruce wood	[Expertise by E. Schaffran, Dorotheum, Vienna, 01.04.1948; Koepplin Archive]

The Virgin is depicted as a half-length figure set against a dark background free from distracting landscape elements with the exception of a small window at the top right, showing a mountainous landscape with a lake. She holds the infant Christ who stands on the parapet supported by one leg. On his knee he balances an apple, and eats a grape from the bunch offered to him by his mother. A glass of water and an apple feature prominently as a meaningful still life in the foreground.

[cda 2020]

Attributions: Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Letter from D. Koepplin to Sotheby's, 27.10.1990; Koepplin Archive] [cda 2020]
Lucas Cranach the Elder	or Lucas Cranach the Younger? [Expertise by Herr Herbst, Dorotheum, Vienna, 06.05. 1975; Koepplin Archive] or Lucas Cranach the Younger? [Expertise by Herr Schaffran, 01.04.1948; Koepplin Archive] or workshop? [Expertise by Herr Baldass, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, June 1942; Koepplin Archive]
Lucas Cranach the Younger	or Lucas Cranach the Younger? [Expertise by Herr Herbst, Dorotheum, Vienna, 06.05. 1975; Koepplin Archive] [Expertise by Herr Schütz, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 29.01.1975; Koepplin Archive] or Lucas Cranach the Elder? [Expertise by Herr Schaffran, 01.04.1948; Koepplin Archive]
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder	or Lucas Cranach the Elder? [Expertise by Herr Baldass, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, June 1942; Koepplin Archive]

Production dates: about 1600 or later
about 1540

Production dates

about 1600 or later	[cda 2020]
about 1540	[Expertise by Herr Baldass, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, June 1942; Koepplin Archive]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 80 x 56.5 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 80 x 56.5 cm
[Handwritten on the reverse of a photograph; Koepplin Archive]

Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia [?]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia [?]

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P415
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P415/

Provenance

by 1975 private collection, Austria
[Letter from D. Koepplin to Sotheby's, London, 27.10.1990; Koepplin Archive]
22.10.1990 with Sotheby's, London
[Letter from Sotheby's, London to D. Koepplin, 22.10.1990; Koepplin Archive]

Research History / Discussion

According to D. Koepplin this painting is a copy of the version in Washington [US_NGA_1953-3-1]. In the present painting a window showing a landscape was inserted in the top right corner. A similar version - albeit sllightly better quality- was sold by Gallery Fischer in Lucerne on the 25.11.1972, lot no. 2355. Another very similar, but later version without the apple and glass in the foreground, and slightly smaller in dimensions is now in a museum in Warsaw [PL_MNW_MOb2154].

[see: Letter from D. Koepplin to Sotheby's, London, 27.10.1990; Koepplin Archive]

The Virgin and Child, about 1600 or later

Images

Versions

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Entry with author: <author's name>, 'The Virgin and Child', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P415/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})
Entry with no author: 'The Virgin and Child', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document, entry or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P415/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})

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