The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John

The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John

Title

The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[a page from an auction catalogue, Nagel, Stuttgart, 19/20.09.2007, lot 671; Koepplin Archive]

The Virgin is depicted as a half-length seated figure, set in front of a landscape with a castle on a rocky crag at the left. She holds the naked infant Christ on her lap. He blesses the infant St John, who stands on the left in an attitude of prayer,

The Virgin is depicted as a half-length seated figure, set in front of a landscape with a castle on a rocky crag at the left. She holds the naked infant Christ on her lap. He blesses the infant St John, who stands on the left in an attitude of prayer, wearing a thin tunic.

[cda 2020]

Attributions
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Page from an auction catalogue, Nagel, Stuttgart, 19/20.09.2007, lot 671; Koepplin Archive]

Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Letter from D. Koepplin to Nagel, Stuttgart, 13.07.2007; Koepplin Archive]

Production date
1600 - 1699

Production date

1600 - 1699

[A page from an auction catalogue, Nagel, Stuttgart, 19/20.09.2007, lot 671; Koepplin Archive]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 68 x 47 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 68 x 47 cm

  • [Page from an auction catalogue, Nagel, Stuttgart, 19/20.09.2007, lot 671; Koepplin Archive]

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P419
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P419/

Provenance

  • private collection, South Germany
  • auction, Nagel, Stuttgart, 19/20.09.2007, lot 671
    [a page from an auction catalogue, Nagel, Stuttgart, 19/20.09.2007, lot 671; Koepplin Archive]

Research History / Discussion

According to D. Koepplin this painting is one of a number of copies of a composition by Cranach [another copy is known in the St. Anna Kirche, Augsburg]. The original may be the version in Coburg [DE_BRD-KSVC_M337].

[Letter from D. Koepplin to Nagel, Stuttgart, 13.07.2007; Koepplin Archive]

Compare also with another smaller copy [PRIVATE_NONE-P420] and a further copy [PRIVATE_NONE-P424]

[cda 2020]

  • The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John, 1600 - 1699

Images

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Versions

The Virgin and Child with St John as a boy
  • The Virgin and Child with St John as a boy, about 1512 - 1514
  • DE_BRD-KSVC_M337
  • Painting
  • Federal Republic of Germany
The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John
  • The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John, after 1514
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P424
  • Painting
  • Private Collection
The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John
  • The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John, about 1512 or later
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P420
  • Painting
  • Private Collection

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

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Entry with no author
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