Head of a Woman with a White Bonnet (Omphale?), fragment

Head of a Woman with a White Bonnet (Omphale?), fragment

Title

Head of a Woman with a White Bonnet (Omphale?), fragment

[cda 2020]

Painting on beech wood

Medium

Painting on beech wood

[Hampel online database, accessed 25.09.2020]

This panel is a fragment from a larger composition, possibly a depiction of ‘Hercules and Omphale’. It shows a woman in three quarter profile, looking to her right. She is wearing a gown with a fur collar and has a decorative gold band around her neck as well as a

This panel is a fragment from a larger composition, possibly a depiction of ‘Hercules and Omphale’. It shows a woman in three quarter profile, looking to her right. She is wearing a gown with a fur collar and has a decorative gold band around her neck as well as a large linked chain. Her hair is pinned up and concealed beneath a white bonnet.

[cda 2020]

Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attributions

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Hampel online database, accessed 25.09.2020]

Lucas Cranach the Younger

['Mercier & Cie, Lille, 04.10.2015, lot 287', Hampel online database, accessed 25.09.2020]

Lucas Cranach the Elder

['Albert Riegener and Hugo Helbing, Munich, 05.06.1899, lot 21', Hampel online database, accessed 25.09.2020]

Production date
about 1535

Production date

about 1535

[Hampel online database, accessed 25.09.2020]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 20.5 x 15.7 cm

Dimensions

Signature / Dating

none

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P451
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P451/

Provenance

  • Albert Langen Collection, Munich
  • Albert Riegener and Hugo Helbing, Munich, 05.06.1899, lot 21, (Cranach the Elder)
  • Mercier & Cie, Lille, 04.10.2015, lot 287, (Cranach the Younger)
  • auction Hampel, Munich, 27.06.2019, lot 674 (Cranach workshop)
    [Hampel online database, accessed 25.09.2020]
  • private collection, Italy
    [E-mail correspondance G. Heydenreich with the owner, 21.07.2020]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Reinachl 1906
AuthorSalomon Reinach
TitleTableaux inédits ou peu connus tirés de collections françaises
Place of PublicationParis
Year of Publication1906
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Research History / Discussion

In a recent auction catalogue entry it is suggested that this fragment may have originally been part of a paintng depicting 'Hercules and Omphale' now in Aschaffenburg [DE_MSA_12578].

[See Hampel online database, accessed 25.09.2020]

[see also DK_SMK_KMSsp727 for similar female head]

Connected Works

Hercules and Omphale
  • Hercules and Omphale, about 1535
  • DE_MSA_12578
  • Painting
  • Museen der Stadt Aschaffenburg
  • Head of a Woman with a White Bonnet (Omphale?), fragment, about 1535

Images

Compare images
  • overall

Condition Reports

Date27.06.2019

  • cradled fragment

[Hampel online database: https://www.hampel-auctions.com/a/Lucas-Cranach-d-Ae-1472-1553.html?a=119&s=656&id=555229; accessed 25.09.2020]

Versions

Hercules with Omphale
  • Hercules with Omphale, 1535
  • DK_SMK_KMSsp727
  • Painting
  • Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Citing from the Cranach Digital Archive

Entry with author
<author's name>, 'Head of a Woman with a White Bonnet (Omphale?), fragment', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P451/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})
Entry with no author
'Head of a Woman with a White Bonnet (Omphale?), fragment', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document, entry or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P451/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})

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