Virgin and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara

Title

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, No. 134B]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Photocopy of a page from the auction catalogue H. Hahn 1930, Koepplin Archive]

The infant Christ is shown at the centre of the composition, standing on the Virgin’s lap and bearing his weight on his right leg. He is gently supported by the seated female figures, framing him in a triangle. The Virgin is at the apex, her head tilted slightly to her right and her hair worn loose. St Catharine is shown on the left and is identified by the hilt of a sword, while the woman on the right is probably St Barbara. The figurative group is set in front of a curtain held at either corner by a cherub.

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

Attributions

Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, no. 134B]
Lucas Cranach the Elder	or 'school of' [Photocopy of a page from the auction catalogue H. Hahn 1930, Koepplin Archive]
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder	or 'Lucas Cranach the Elder' [Photocopy of a page from the auction catalogue H. Hahn 1930, Koepplin Archive]

Production date: after 1550

Production date

after 1550

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Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 60 × 40 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 60 × 40 cm
[Photocopy of a page from the auction catalogue H. Hahn 1930, Koepplin Archive]

Signature / Dating: none

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P455
FR (1978) Nr.: FR134B
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P455/

Provenance

auction, Kunsthaus H. Hahn, Frankfurt a. M., 11.12.1930, no. 100
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, no. 134B]

Research History / Discussion

Evidently a later copy of the painting in Erfurt Cathedral [DE_DSME_NONE-DSME001].

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 97, no. 134B]

Three further copies or versions are known to exist. A version with similar dimensions to the painting in Erfurt Cathedral that is now in St Joseph's Servite Convent, Innsbruck [AT_SJI_NONE-SJI001] and two smaller versions, one attributed to Wolfgang Krodel the Elder, which is in Schloss Eggenberg, Graz [AT_UMJ_101] and another one attributed to an anoymous artist, which is in the National Gallery in Prague [CZ_NGP_DO4566].

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Virgin and Child with Sts Catherine and Barbara, after 1550

Images

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