Salome (fragment)

Salome (fragment)

Titles

Salome (fragment)

[cda 2021]

Princesse Sybille de Cleve

[Cat. Koudacheff, St Petersburg 1902, 24]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Cat. Koudacheff, St Petersburg 1902, 24]

Salome is shown wearing 16th century Saxon courtly attire consisting of a dress with numerous decorative slits, a beret with a feather over a snood and various chains.

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Attributions
Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Letter from D. Koepplin to H. Kisters, 10.1972; Koepplin Archive]

Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder

'Cranach-Nachfolge' [Jacoby 2002, 211]

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Cat. Koudacheff, St Petersburg 1902, 24]

Production date
about 1540 - 1600 or later

Production date

about 1540 - 1600 or later

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Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 62 × 52 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 62 × 52 cm

  • [Cat. Koudacheff, St Petersburg 1902, 24]

Signature / Dating

None

Owner
Private Collection
Repository
Private Collection
CDA ID
PRIVATE_NONE-P521
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P521/

Provenance

  • in the collection of Prince Serge Koudacheff, St. Petersburg
    [Cat. Koudacheff, St Petersburg 1902, 24]
  • auctioned at Hotel Drouot, Paris, 23.04.1909, no. 24
  • 1973 in Redenbacher photographic studio, Munich
  • 2012 shown at Christie's, London
    [Letter from W. Schade to D. Koepplin, 05.2012; Koepplin Archive]

Exhibitions

Überlingen 2006, no. II.1

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Jacoby 2002 211-212 Fig. 12
AuthorJoachim W. Jacoby
TitleDer Monogrammist CR: Cyriakus Reder und Christian Richter
JournalNiederdeutsche Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte
Issue41
Year of Publication2002
Pages197-212

Research History / Discussion

An illustration of this painting in the catalogue of Sergei Koudacheff’s collection from 1902 appears to show a certain amount of overpaint [Cat. Koudacheff, St Petersburg 1902, 24], which may have been carried out when the painting was cropped at the bottom to transform the biblical scene into a portrait of Sybille of Cleve. A later photograph from 1973 shows the paintings with the head of St John the Baptist, allowiing us to identify the woman as Salome. In a letter Werner Schade also presumes that the paintings [this one and the one sold at the Dorotheum, Vienna) are one and the same.

[Letter from W. Schade to D. Koepplin, 05.2012; Koepplin Archive]

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It is possible that this painting is the one which was auctioned in 2012 at the Dorotheum in Vienna.

[Dorotheum online database, accessed 29.06.2021]

  • Salome (fragment), about 1540 - 1600 or later

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