This is the central panel of a small triptych with representations from the Life of the Virgin. It is divided by a black band into two registers. The upper register is divided further into two halves: on the left Christ is shown in the temple as a twelve year old,
This is the central panel of a small triptych with representations from the Life of the Virgin. It is divided by a black band into two registers. The upper register is divided further into two halves: on the left Christ is shown in the temple as a twelve year old, seated on a stone block with a open book on his lap and the ten commandments propped up behind him. The Elders are gathered around him, and the Virgin can be seen entering from the right. The other scene depicts Christ returning to visit his mother. The Virgin sits at the right in an almost bare room, while Christ enters from the left bearing the victory banner and clothed in a voluminous and once red robe. The lower register shows the death of the Virgin. She sits upright in an fourposter-bed that is raised on a wooden pedestal and positioned within a tiled interior. The twelve apostles have gathered around the bed to take leave of the Virgin. Two kneel in the foreground reading a book. St John closes the Virgin's hands around a candle. Accompanied by the Virgin’s soul the Holy Trinity look down on the scene from a heavenly cloud framed by cherubs.
[cda 2022]
- Attributions
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Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attributions
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Blumenroth, Heydenreich, unpublished examination report, 23.08.2021]; [Körner 1931, 120-121] |
Circle of Lucas Cranach the Elder | School of Lucas Cranach [Körner 1931, 120-121] |
- Production date
- about 1515 - 1518
Production date
about 1515 - 1518 | [Blumenroth, Heydenreich, unpublished examination report, 23.08.2021] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of visible painted surface: 40.6 x 22.9 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of visible painted surface: 40.6 x 22.9 cm
Dimensions with frame: 53.5 x 31.8 x 3.2 cm
Dimensions of the whole altarpiece: 53.5 x 63.6 cm (open, including frame)
[Blumenroth, Heydenreich, unpublished examination report, 23.08.2021]
- Signature / Dating
- None
- Inscriptions and Labels
- On the reverse of the panel: - remnants of an adhesive label: ' wartz, Bo ministrator schen …
Inscriptions and Labels
Stamps, Seals, Labels:
- On the reverse of the panel:
- - remnants of an adhesive label: '[…] wartz, Bo […] ministrator […] schen Familien […] sache'
- - in dark paint: 'No. 3[?]'
- - a red wax seal
- [Blumenroth, Heydenreich, unpublished examination report, 23.08.2021]
- Owner
- Private Collection
- Repository
- LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster
- Location
- Münster
- CDA ID
- PRIVATE_NONE-P527a
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P527a/