Sts Dorothy and Margaret

Sts Dorothy and Margaret

Title

Sts Dorothy and Margaret

[cda 2021]

Painting on fir

Medium

Painting on fir

[Cat. Coburg 2018, 68, no. 10]

The panel shows St Dorothy (l.) and St Margaret (r.) as full-length figures in contemporary Renaissance courtly attire. A small boy, wearing only in a gauzy tunic stands between them and offers St Dorothy a basket of flowers – an attribute associated with her. St Margaret’s dragon is positioned happily

The panel shows St Dorothy (l.) and St Margaret (r.) as full-length figures in contemporary Renaissance courtly attire. A small boy, wearing only in a gauzy tunic stands between them and offers St Dorothy a basket of flowers – an attribute associated with her. St Margaret’s dragon is positioned happily at her feet, while a less common vanitas symbol, that of the mask is placed prominently on the ground in the foreground. The figurative group is set against the backdrop of an expansive mountainous landscape with a town visible in the valley and a fortress on a hill to the right.

[cda 2021]

Attributions
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Franconian-Saxon Master

Attributions

Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Cat. Coburg 2018, 68, no. 10]

Franconian-Saxon Master

'anonymous Master close to Dürer' [Schade, Cat. Coburg 2018, 75, fn. 13]

Pseudo-Matthias Grünewald

[Nachold 1937, 98,99]

Production date
about 1519

Production date

about 1519

[Cat. Coburg 2018, 68, no. 10]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 121 x 90.3 x 0.1 cm (thinned original panel)/ 1.4 cm (including the auxilary support, a blockboard consisting of spruce wood)

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 121 x 90.3 x 0.1 cm (thinned original panel)/ 1.4 cm (including the auxilary support, a blockboard consisting of spruce wood)

  • [Cat. Coburg 2018, 68, no. 10]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Location
Coburg
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P479
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P479/

Provenance

  • 1937 private collection, Germany
  • 1959 Dr. Paul and Sabine Herfurth, Eppenhain (bei Königstein im Taunus)
  • Elizabeth Schröder, Kronberg im Taunus
  • 2011 on permanent loan to the Kunstsammlungen Veste Coburg
    [Cat. Coburg 2018, 68, no. 10]

Exhibitions

Leipzig 1937, no. 12 (III.)

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Coburger Landesstiftung 2012 344 Fig. 20
Authorn. a.
TitleKunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, Jahresbericht 2011
JournalJahrbuch der Coburger Landesstiftung
IssueBand 56
Year of Publication2012
Show Literature
Exhib. Cat. Leipzig 1937 6 012
EditorMuseum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
TitleAlte Meister aus mitteldeutschem Besitz. Ausstellung Museum der Bildenden Künste
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1937
Show Literature
Nachod 1937 98-99 Fig. 9
AuthorHans Nachod
TitleLeipzig. Alte Meister aus Privatbesitz
JournalZeitschrift für bildende Kunst
IssueHeft 8 (Beilage)
Year of Publication1937
Pages98-99
Show Literature

Research History / Discussion

In 1937 [Exhib. Cat. Leipzig 1937, no. 12] this work was first associated with another panel depicting 'The Last Judgement' on the recto and St Elizabeth and Mary Magdalene on the verso, now in the Coburg collection [DE_KSVC_M037], and more recently in 2018 by Weschenfelder in [Cat. Coburg 2018, 73 ff.] While recognising the difference in the excution of both panels he underlines the stylistic parallels and moreover their similar dimensions.

[cda 2021]

  • Sts Dorothy and Margaret, about 1519

Images

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Technical studies

2018Technical Examination

Support

- the panel consists of three vertically aligned and butt joined planks of fir (recto from the right): plank I: 38.1 cm; plank II: 26 cm; plank III: 26.2 cm

[Cat. Coburg 2018, 68]

Condition Reports

Date2018

Support:

  • the fir panel was thinned to a thickness of 0.1 cm and laminated onto a blockboard (spruce wood, 1.3 cm thick, stained brown)

Paint Layers:

  • very fine network of cracks

  • only a few more recent retouches are visible in ultraviolet light due to the strong fluorenscence of the varnish

Varnish:

  • numerous brush applications of a natural resin varnish

[Cat. Coburg 2018, 68]

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