St Catherine

Title

St Catherine

[cda 2020]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Exhib. Cat. Lisbon 2016, 48, no. 107]

Saint Catherine is shown as a half-length figure against a neutral background. Although her body is turned to her left she maintains eye contact with the viewer. Her dress is simple and she is wearing three thin bands around her neck. A thin black band decorates her head and her ringlets frame her face. Her hands are clasped in front of her and her attribute - the wheel - is just visible behind her.

[cda 2020]

Attributions: Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Copy after Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Exhib. Cat. Lisbon 2016, 48, no. 107]
Lucas Cranach the Elder	? [Typewritten label, reverse of a b/w photograph, Koepplin Archive] [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 82A]

Production dates: after 1600?
1500 - 1599?

Production dates

after 1600?	[cda 2020]
1500 - 1599?	16th century? [Exhib. Cat. Lisbon 2016, 48, no. 107]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 51 x 41 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 51 x 41 cm
[Exhib. Cat. Lisbon 2016, 48, no. 107]

Signature / Dating: None

Inscriptions and Labels: Reverse of the panel: paper label with inventory numbers from the Museum der Bayerischen Könige (Museum of the Bavarian …

Inscriptions and Labels

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

Reverse of the panel: paper label with inventory numbers from the Museum der Bayerischen Könige (Museum of the Bavarian Royal House), 1822
[Exhib. Cat. Lisbon 2016, 51, no. 107]

Owner: Museu National de Arte Antiga, Lisboa
Repository: Museu National de Arte Antiga, Lisboa
Location: Lisbon

CDA ID: PT_MNAAL_1985
FR (1978) Nr.: FR082A
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PT_MNAAL_1985/

Provenance

Somzee Collection, Brussels; sale 24.05.1904, no. 623
Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon/Paris
donated to the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon
[Typewritten label, reverse of a b/w photograph, Koepplin Archive]
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 82A]

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Exhib. Cat. Lisbon 2016

48-51

107

Pl. p. 49, Fig. 3

Author	António Filipe Pimentel, Anísio Franco, Jose Alberto Seabra Carvalho, Alexandra Gomes Markl, Ana Kol
Editor	Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisboa
Title	Obras em reserva o museu que não se vê, [Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, 18.05 - 25.09.2016]
Place of Publication	Lisbon
Year of Publication	2016

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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

082A

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Editor	G. Schwartz
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Basel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1979

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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932

075 (u.)

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Berlin
Year of Publication	1932
Link	http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932

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Research History / Discussion

The catalogue entry in [Exhib. Cat. Lisbon 2016, 51, no. 107] associates this painting with a silver point and ink wash drawing of the same subject attributed to Cranach's workshop in the Metropolitan Museum of Art [Inv. no.1995.269] from c. 1530.

[cda 2020]

This painting is very similar to a version in Kronach [DE_BNMM-FGK_R38]. The young women differ only in the colour of their respective bodices. The version in Kronach displays a coat-of-arms, while the version in Lisbon is represented with a wheel and a sword, the attributes of St Catherine.

A mirror inverted drawing in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Inv.-No. 1995.269) confirms, that the design of a female half-length figure with attributes can be traced back to Cranach and that it later assumed an independent identity as a portrait in the Kronach version.

[see: Cat. Kronach 2014, 266-267, no. 101]

St Catherine, after 1600?

Images

Versions

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