The Virgin and Child with St Catherine

The Virgin and Child with St Catherine

Title

The Virgin and Child with St Catherine

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2020]

The Virgin and infant Christ are attended by St Catherine, offering the child grapes, and a cherub leaning over the Virgin’s shoulder. The figurative group is set in a landscape with a rainbow visible at the left.

[cda 2020]

Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

or circle of? [Letter from D. Koepplin to Neumeister, Munich, 19.07.1984; Koepplin Archive]

Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder

or workshop? [Letter from D. Koepplin to Neumeister, Munich, 19.07.1984; Koepplin Archive]

Master I. S.

? [cda 2020]

Production date
after 1515

Production date

after 1515

[cda 2020]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 47.2 x 34.8 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 47.2 x 34.8 cm

  • [Letter from Neumeister, Munich to D. Koepplin, 16.07.1984; Koepplin Archive]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at bottom, centre: 'IS' (linked)

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at bottom, centre: 'IS' (linked)

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P425
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P425/

Provenance

  • private collection
  • auction Neumeister, Munich, 28./29.11.1984, lot 605
    [Letter from Neumeister, Munich to D. Koepplin 02.08.1984; Koepplin Archive]

Research History / Discussion

This painting appears to be a copy after or another version of a composition in a private collection with the FR no. 131 [PRIVATE_NONE-P222]; a slightly larger version is now in Portland [US_PAM_69-67]; other versions or copies are known to exist, e. g. one sold at Sotheby's, London, 26. April 2007, Lot 27, one in Sandomierz, Diözesanmuseum, Inv. No. MDS-33, in Bozen, Municipal Museum and in Poznan, Nationalmuseum [PL_MNP_Mo559].

[cda 2020]

  • The Virgin and Child with St Catherine, after 1515

Images

Compare images
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Versions

Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine
  • Madonna and Child with Saint Catherine, about 1515
  • US_PAM_69-67
  • Painting
  • Portland Art Museum
The Virgin and Child with St Catharine
  • The Virgin and Child with St Catharine, about 1520
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P222
  • Painting
  • Private Collection

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

Entry with author
<author's name>, 'The Virgin and Child with St Catherine', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P425/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})
Entry with no author
'The Virgin and Child with St Catherine', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document, entry or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P425/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})

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