The Virgin and Child

The Virgin and Child

Title

The Virgin and Child

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2020]

The Virgin is depicted as a half-length seated figure set against a green curtain. She wears her hair down and it is covered by an almost transparent veil. Her hands gently support the infant Christ who is sitting on her right knee and looks out directly at the viewer.

[cda

The Virgin is depicted as a half-length seated figure set against a green curtain. She wears her hair down and it is covered by an almost transparent veil. Her hands gently support the infant Christ who is sitting on her right knee and looks out directly at the viewer.

[cda 2020]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[L. Meyer, expertise, 03.03.2000; Koepplin Archive]
[D. Koepplin, expertise, 20.12.1990; Koepplin Archive]

Production date
about 1520

Production date

about 1520

[D. Koepplin, expertise, 20.12.1990; Koepplin Archive]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 79 x 56.5 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 79 x 56.5 cm

  • [A page from an auction catalogue, Dorotheum, Vienna, 14.03.1991, lot 65; Koepplin Archive]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the left, centre: serpent with elevated wings, facing right

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the left, centre: serpent with elevated wings, facing right

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P418
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P418/

Provenance

  • before 1945 with the art dealer Bauer, Vienna
  • 21.01.1945 bought from the above by an austrian industrial company
  • auction, Dorotheum, Vienna, 14.03.1991, lot 65
    [A page from an auction catalogue, Dorotheum, Vienna, 14.03.1991, lot 65; Koepplin Archive]
  • auction, Dorotheum, Vienna, 30.03.2000, lot 462
    [A page from an auction catalogue, Dorotheum, Vienna, 30.03.2000, lot 462; Koepplin Archive]
  • 2001 with the art dealer Galerie Trost, Munich
    [A page from the art fair catalogue: '32. Westdeutsche Kunst Messe, 24 März - 1 April 2001, Kunst Messe, Köln'; Koepplin Archive]
  • The Virgin and Child, about 1520

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Conservation History

Date1991 - 2000

Between the sale in 1991 (Dorotheum, Vienna 14.03.1991) and the sale in 2000 (Dorotheum, Vienna 30.03.2000) the painting appears to have undergone conservation treatment.

[cda 2020]

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

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-P418/ (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-P418/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})

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