Agony in the Garden

Agony in the Garden

Title

Agony in the Garden

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2020]

Positioned at the centre of the composition Christ kneels on a circular stone slab in the garden of Gethsemane awaiting the agony of the Passion. He looks up to the left with his arms raised. There an angel is visible, bearing the cross. The sleeping apostles occupy the foreground of

Positioned at the centre of the composition Christ kneels on a circular stone slab in the garden of Gethsemane awaiting the agony of the Passion. He looks up to the left with his arms raised. There an angel is visible, bearing the cross. The sleeping apostles occupy the foreground of the composition, while in the background the soldiers, who will subsequently arrest Christ, can be seen approaching.

[cda 2020]

Attribution
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[cda 2020]
'Fein-dekorative Gräser: sicher nicht eigenhändig' (Fine, decorative grass: definately not autographic) [note D. Koepplin on the reverse of a photograph; Koepplin Archive]

Production date
about 1520 - 1540

Production date

about 1520 - 1540

[cda 2020]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: not known

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: not known

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P476
FR (1978) Nr.
FR376B
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P476/

Provenance

  • Julius Böhler, Munich (1910)
    [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 376B]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 376B
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 85 301b
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
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Research History / Discussion

A very similar version in now in a private collection [PRIVATE_NONE-P071]. Another version - probably a more recent copy - is in the Municipal Museum in Banska Bystrica.

[cda 2024]

  • Agony in the Garden, about 1520 - 1540

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Agony in the Garden
  • Agony in the Garden, about 1520 - 1530
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P071
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  • Private Collection

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