This panel is the left wing of a small triptych with representations from the Life of the Virgin. The inner side is divided by a black band into two registers. The upper register depicts the Annunciation to the Virgin. She kneels on a prayer stool at the righthand side of
This panel is the left wing of a small triptych with representations from the Life of the Virgin. The inner side is divided by a black band into two registers. The upper register depicts the Annunciation to the Virgin. She kneels on a prayer stool at the righthand side of the image. She hold up her right hand in greeting, while keeping her place in the book with her other one. Humbly she looks down at the ground with her head slightly inclined to her left from where the angel Gabriel approaches. The Holy Ghost hovers as a dove above him. Both the dove and the Virgin’s head are enhanced by an aureole of light rays. The figures are arranged in a simple architectural setting.
The lower register shows the Visitation, an episode recounted in the Gospel of Saint Luke, the Virgin and St Elizabeth are shown as full-length figures under a tree against the backdrop of a forest landscape with a fortress. Both are heavily pregnant and the artist has captured the moment in which they embrace.
The outer side or reverse of the panel shows a full-length representation of St Roche facing to his left, and standing on a light coloured floor against a monochrome dark background. He is wearing a voluminous red cloak lined with green fabric over a blue tunic and holds a pilgrim’s staff. This motif is repeated on the rim of the hat on his head as well as the typical attribute of the scallop shell.
[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Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Blumenroth, Heydenreich, unpublished examination report, 23.08.2021] |
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about 1515 - 1518 | [Blumenroth, Heydenreich, unpublished examination report, 23.08.2021] |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: 40.3 x 11.4 cm (inner side); 41.5 x 11.5 cm (outer side)
Dimensions
Dimensions of visible painted surface: 40.3 x 11.4 cm (inner side); 41.5 x 11.5 cm (outer side)
Dimensions with frame: 53.5 x 15.8 x 2.2 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
- Owner
- Private Collection
- Repository
- LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster
- Location
- Münster
- CDA ID
- PRIVATE_NONE-P527b
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR-none
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P527b/