Madonna and Child under the Apple Tree

Madonna and Child under the Apple Tree

Title

Madonna and Child under the Apple Tree

[Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016, No. 13]

Painting on wood, transferred to canvas

Medium

Painting on wood, transferred to canvas

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 225]

The mother and child look directly at the viewer. The Virgin is represented as a seated half-length figure. Her shoulders are covered by long strawberry blond locks and draped with a bluish green cloak that falls in expansive folds to reveal a yellowish green lining and her red undergarment. A

The mother and child look directly at the viewer. The Virgin is represented as a seated half-length figure. Her shoulders are covered by long strawberry blond locks and draped with a bluish green cloak that falls in expansive folds to reveal a yellowish green lining and her red undergarment. A gossamer veil around her neck covers her head and is visible on her forehead as very thin line above her eyes. The Virgin sits under an apple tree and supports the infant Christ, who stands on her lap, holding a piece of bread and an apple. An expansive landscape with a lake and a castle on a rocky outcrop is visible behind the Virgin, and as such takes up the vocabulary typical of Cranach's landscapes.

[Görres, cda 2017]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016, no. 13] [Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, 92, no. 17]

Production dates
about 1525 - 1529
about 1530

Production dates

about 1525 - 1529

late 1520s [Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016, no. 13] [Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016, 92, no. 17]

about 1520 - 1526

[Cat. St. Petersburg 1965, No. 79]

about 1530

[Schade 1974, 461]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 87 x 59 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 87 x 59 cm

  • [Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016, no. 13]

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the top right: winged serpent with elevated wings

Signature / Dating

  • Artist's insignia at the top right: winged serpent with elevated wings

  • [cda 2017]

Owner
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Repository
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
Location
St. Petersburg
CDA ID
RU_ESP_GE684
FR (1978) Nr.
FR225
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/RU_ESP_GE684/

Provenance

  • acquired in 1851
    [Cat. St. Petersburg 1986, 24]

Exhibitions

Dresden 1899, no. 82
Bordeaux 1964, no. 6
Weimar 1972, no. 41
Washington, New York, Detroit, Los Angeles, Houston 1975, no. 1
Montreal, Winnipeg 1976, no. 1
Bonn 1976
Frankfurt 1991, no. 15
St. Petersburg 2016, no. 13
Moscow 2016, no. 17

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Cat. Coburg 2018 45 under no. 3
AuthorKlaus Weschenfelder
TitleCranach in Coburg. Gemälde von Lucas Cranach d.Ä., Lucas Cranach d.J., der Werkstatt und des Umkreises in den Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication2018
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Exhib. Cat. Moscow 2016 17
EditorThe Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
TitleKranachi: mezdi Renessansom i Man'erizmom / The Cranachs. Between the renaissance and mannerism
Place of PublicationMoscow
Year of Publication2016
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Exhib. Cat. St. Petersburg 2016 013
AuthorMaria Pavlovna Garlova
EditorThe State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
TitleKranachi: mezdi Renessansom i Man'erizmom / The Cranachs. Between the renaissance and mannerism
Place of PublicationSt. Petersburg
Year of Publication2016
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Exhib. Cat. Prague 2005 137 (English version 51) under no. 38
EditorObrazárna Pražského hradu, Kaliopi Chamonikola
TitlePod znamením okrídleného hada. Lucas Cranach a ceské zeme. Under the winged Serpent. Lucas Cranach and the Czech Land
Place of PublicationPrague
Year of Publication2005
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Exhib. Cat. Frankfurt 1991 79, 100-101 15
EditorSybille Ebert-Schifferer
TitleVon Lucas Cranach bis Caspar David Friedrich. Deutsche Malerei aus der Eremitage, [Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle, 5 April - 9 June 1991]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication1991
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Cat. St. Petersburg 1986 12, 24 pl. 19-22
AuthorNikolai Nikulin, Boris Asvarishch
TitleThe Hermitage: German and Austrian Paintings
Place of PublicationLeningrad
Year of Publication1986
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Cat. St. Petersburg 1981 203
Authorn. a.
TitleGosudarstvenny Ermitazh: Zapadnoevropeyskaya zhivopis, Katalog 2: Niderlandy, Flandriya, Belgiya, Gollandiya, Germaniya, Avstriya, Angliya, Daniya, Norvegiya, Finlandiya, Shvetsiya, Vengriya, Polsha, Rumyniya, Chekhoslovakiya
Place of PublicationSt. Petersburg
Year of Publication1981
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 115 225
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Exhib. Cat. Bonn 1978 16,17
AuthorGeorg Reinhardt
TitleMeisterwerke deutscher und russischer Malerei aus sowjetischen Museen, [Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, 27 May - 9 July 1978]
Place of PublicationCologne
Year of Publication1978
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Cat. St. Petersburg 1977 83
AuthorJ. Koshina
TitleDie Eremitage: Westeuropäische Malerei des 13. bis 18. Jahrhunderts
Place of PublicationLeningrad
Year of Publication1977
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Exhib. Cat. Winnipeg 1976 1
Authorn. a.
TitleMaster Paintings from the Hermitage and the State Russian Museum, Leningrad, [The Winnipeg Art Gallery. 13 August - 26 September, 1976; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 8 October - 14 November 1976]
Place of PublicationWinnipeg, Montreal
Year of Publication1976
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Exhib. Cat. Washington et al. 1975 20 1
EditorJohn Richardson, Eric Zafran
TitleMaster Paintings from the Hermitage and the State Russian Museum, Leningrad
Publication[National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, N.Y.; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; 1975 - 1976]
Place of PublicationNew York
Year of Publication1975
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Schade 1974 461
AuthorWerner Schade
TitleDie Malerfamilie Cranach
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1974
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schade1974
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Kislych 1973 81-83
AuthorGalina S. Kislych
TitleDie Bilder von Lucas Cranach d. Ä. in den Museen der UdSSR
Publicationin Peter H. Feist, Ernst Ullmann, eds., Lucas Cranach. Künstler und Gesellschaft
Place of PublicationWittenberg
Year of Publication1973
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Libmann 1973 57, 58
AuthorMichail Jakovlevič Libmann
TitleKartiny Lukasa Kranacha Staršego v sovetskich sobranijach
JournalIskusstvo
Issue36/2
Year of Publication1973
Pages57-63
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Exhib. Cat. Weimar 1972 B 171 41
EditorSchlossmuseum Weimar
TitleLucas Cranach 1472-1553. Ein großer Maler in bewegter Zeit
Place of PublicationWeimar
Year of Publication1972
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Cat. St. Petersburg 1965 pl. 79, 80
EditorW. F. Lewinson-Lessing
TitleMeisterwerke aus der Eremitage. Malerei des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts
Place of PublicationPrague
Year of Publication1965
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Exhib. Cat. Bordeaux 1964 6 6
AuthorGilberte Martin-Méry
TitleLa Femme et l'artiste: de Bellini à Picasso, [Bordeaux, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, May 22 - September 20, 1964]
Place of PublicationBordeaux
Year of Publication1964
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Nemilov 1959 B 176, 177
AuthorAlexander Nemilov
TitleDie Gemälde von Lukas Cranach d. Ä. in der Staatlichen Ermitage
JournalBildende Kunst
Year of Publication1959
Pages173-178
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Cat. St. Petersburg 1958 318
AuthorV. F. Levinson-Lessing, A. E. Krol, U. A. Rusakov
TitleGosudarstvenny Ermitazh: Otdel zapadnoevropeyskogo iskusstva: Katalog zhivopisi. T.II [State Hermitage: Department of Western/European art: Catalogue of paintings. Vol. II]
Place of PublicationSt. Petersburg, Moscow
Year of Publication1958
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Nemilov 1953 61
AuthorAlexander Nemilov
TitleLucas Cranach
JournalIskusstvo
Issue16
Year of Publication1953
Pages57-64
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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 187
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
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Glaser 1921 A 285
AuthorCurt Glaser
TitleLukas Cranach
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1921
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Cat. St. Petersburg 1916 459
Authorn. a.
TitleImperatorsky Ermitazh: Kratky katalog kartinnoy galerei [Imperial Hermitage: Concise catalogue of the picture gallery]
Place of PublicationSt. Petersburg
Year of Publication1916
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Flechsig 1900 A 87, 273
AuthorEduard Flechsig
TitleCranachstudien
Volume1
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1900
Link page/n5/mode/2up
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Exhib. Cat. Dresden 1899 082
EditorKarl Woermann
TitleDeutsche Kunstausstellung Dresden 1899. Abteilung Cranach-Ausstellung. Wissenschaftliches Verzeichnis der ausgestellten Werke
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1899
Link http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/SBB00002A2400000000
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Clément de Ris 1879 350
AuthorLouis Clément de Ris
TitleMusées des Nord: Musée Imperial de l'Ermitage à St. Petérsbourg.
JournalGazette des Beaux-Arts
Issue19 (1879)
Year of Publication1879
Pages342-352
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Waagen 1864 132 459
AuthorGustav Friedrich Waagen
TitleDie Gemäldesammlungen in der Kaiserlichen Eremitage zu St. Petersburg nebst Bemerkungen über andere dortige Kunstsammlungen
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication1864
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  • Madonna and Child under the Apple Tree, about 1525 - 1529

Images

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Technical studies

1978Technical Examination

Support

The painting has been transferred from a wooden support to a canvas one. During the treatment the dimensions were changed.

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 225]

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Underdrawing

DESCRIPTION

- an underdrawing is not readily visible (the lines were probably executed with a brush)

[Sandner, Smith-Contini, Heydenreich, cda 2017]

Versions

The Virgin and Child under an Apple Tree
  • The Virgin and Child under an Apple Tree, about 1550 - 1750
  • PRIVATE_NONE-P593
  • Painting
  • Private Collection

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