The Virgin and Child with Saints

Title

[cda 2022]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2022]

The Virgin is at the centre of the image and supports the infant Christ, who stands on her lap. The child gazes out of the picture, while giving St Catharine an apple. She kneels to his right and holds her attribute of the sword in her left hand. St Barbara kneels on the right with her hands folded in prayer. The heads of the two saints, together with that of the Virgin at the apex, create a triangle, which contributes to the balanced and calm composition. Putti hover in both upper corners holding the heavenly crown over the Virgin's head.

[cda 2022]

Attribution: unknown

Attribution

unknown

[cda 2022]

Production date: after 1530

Production date

after 1530

[cda 2022]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 36 x 25 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 36 x 25 cm
[handwritten on the reverse of a b/w photograph, Friedländer Archive]

Signature / Dating: none

Inscriptions and Labels: none

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

none

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P575
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P575/

Provenance

wereabouts unknown
[cda 2022]

Research History / Discussion

This panel is slightly smaller in format, but otherwise very similar to a version attributed to the Master IW [CZ_KKPSP_O848].

There is also a similar variant of this subject attributed to Cranach in Erfurt Cathedral [DE_DSME_NONE-DSME001]. Four further copies or versions of this are known: [AT_SJI_NONE-SJI001] ; [PRIVATE_NONE-P455] ; [AT_UMJ_101] ; [CZ_NGP_DO4566].

[cda 2022]

The Virgin and Child with Saints, after 1530

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Entry with author: <author's name>, 'The Virgin and Child with Saints', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P575/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})
Entry with no author: 'The Virgin and Child with Saints', <title of document, data entry or image>. [<Date of document, entry or image>], in: Cranach Digital Archive, https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P575/ (Accessed {{dateAccessed}})

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