The Virgin and Child with Cherubs

The Virgin and Child with Cherubs

Title

The Virgin and Child with Cherubs

[2021]

Painting on limewood

Medium

Painting on limewood

[typed under a b/w photograph; Koepplin Archive]

The Virgin is shown seated on a stone block at the centre of the image. She holds the infant Christ on her lap, who takes a berry offered to him by a cherub. A further three cherubs are busy collecting berries in the foreground, a forth stands at the Virgin's

The Virgin is shown seated on a stone block at the centre of the image. She holds the infant Christ on her lap, who takes a berry offered to him by a cherub. A further three cherubs are busy collecting berries in the foreground, a forth stands at the Virgin's left, and together with another two cherubs he holds a dark curtain that serves as a backdrop for the figurative group. A mountainous landscape with both a fortress and a town is visible in the far distance.

[cda 2021]

Attribution
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Younger

Attribution

Follower of Lucas Cranach the Younger

[Typewritten under a b/w photograph; Koepplin Archive]

Production date
1554

Production date

1554

[dated]

Dimensions
Dimensions including frame: 78.5 x 60 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions including frame: 78.5 x 60 cm

  • [Typewritten under a b/w photograph; Koepplin Archive]

Signature / Dating

On the stone bank to the right of the Virgin dated '15[5]4'

Signature / Dating

  • On the stone bank to the right of the Virgin dated '15[5]4'

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P483
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P483/

Provenance

  • property of Graf Schall-Riaucour auf Gaussig
    [typed under a b/w photograph; Koepplin Archive]

Research History / Discussion

A smaller, yet very similar version of the present painting is also known to exist. [PRIVATE_NONE-P484]

[cda 2021]

  • The Virgin and Child with Cherubs, 1554

Images

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Versions

The Virgin and Child with Cherubs
  • The Virgin and Child with Cherubs, after 1540
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P484
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  • Private Collection

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