Sts Catherine and Mary Magdalene

Sts Catherine and Mary Magdalene

Titles

Sts Catherine and Mary Magdalene

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Sts Catherine and Mary Salome

[Auct. Cat. Cologne 1927, 8, no. 7]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Christie's online database, accessed 07.06.2021] [no longer online, 05.08.2021]

Both saints are depicted as half-length figures (see Description, Comments below) in contemporary courtly attire against a neutral dark background. St Catherine (on the left) is wearing a green velvet dress with a brocade bodice, laced above the waist and her falls loose over her shoulders. She rests her left

Both saints are depicted as half-length figures (see Description, Comments below) in contemporary courtly attire against a neutral dark background. St Catherine (on the left) is wearing a green velvet dress with a brocade bodice, laced above the waist and her falls loose over her shoulders. She rests her left hand on a sword and her attribute of the wheel is just visible at the bottom left corner. Mary Magdalene (on the right) is wearing a red dress with puffed sleeves, her hair is pinned up and she is holding an ointment jar. Both women are adorned with jewellery comprising of chokers and linked chains and each head is encircled by a golden halo.

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Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

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Lucas Cranach the Elder

attributed to [Auct. Cat. Cologne 1927, 8, no. 7]

Production dates
about 1500 - 1525
about 1520 - 1525

Production dates

about 1500 - 1525

[Christie's online database, accessed 07.06.2021] [no longer online, 05.08.2021]

about 1520 - 1525

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Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 62 x 57 cm

Dimensions

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P505
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P505/

Provenance

  • sale of A. Revius (and others), Cologne, Lempertz, 3.05.1927, no. 7 (as 'attributed to Cranach the Elder')
  • Hugo Moser's collection, America
  • sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 20.04.1946, no. 35
  • anonymous sale, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 7.11.1949, no. 3172
  • in Monsieur Léon Salavin's collection, before 1973
  • sold at Palais Galliera, (Mes Ader, Picard, Tajan), Paris, 5.12.1973, no. 17
  • private collection
  • sale, Christie's, Paris, 16.06.2021, lot 9
    [Christie's online database, accessed 07.06.2021][no longer online, 05.08.2021]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Auct. Cat. Cologne 1927 8 007 Pl. 6
EditorKunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne
TitleGemälde alter Meister: Sammlung A. Revius, Den Haag, und anderer Besitz; darunter ein Werk vom Kölnischen Meister des Aachener Altares aus einem westdeutschen Adelsschloss; Kunsthaus Lempertz, 3. Mai 1927 (Katalog Nr. 252)
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication1927
Link https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/lempertz1927_05_03
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Research History / Discussion

The representation of the saints is quite similar in style to four female saints on wing panels of an altarpiece now held in the Bavarian State Collection (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen); particularly the figures of Sts Agnes and Barbara [DE_BStGS_13223].

[Christie's online database, accessed 07.06.2021] [no longer online, 05.08.2021]

The saints may originally have been conceived as full-length figures and the panel which may have served as the wing panel of an altarpiece could have been cropped at some stage. Further examination of the panel could shed light on this hypothesis.

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  • Sts Catherine and Mary Magdalene, about 1500 - 1525

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