Triptych for Gotthard von Höveln [central panel]: Ecce Homo

Triptych for Gotthard von Höveln [central panel]: Ecce Homo

Title

Triptych for Gotthard von Höveln [central panel]: Ecce Homo

[cda 2021]

Painting on wood (oak?)

Medium

Painting on wood (oak?)

[Emmendörffer 1997, 122]

Christ as Ecce Homo is shown frontally as a three-quarter length figure with his head inclined slightly to the left. Positioned at the centre of the composition he is flanked either side, on the left by Pontius Pilate, depicted as a bearded man in a turban and on the right

Christ as Ecce Homo is shown frontally as a three-quarter length figure with his head inclined slightly to the left. Positioned at the centre of the composition he is flanked either side, on the left by Pontius Pilate, depicted as a bearded man in a turban and on the right by a soldier with a red cap, baring his teeth. Further men are lined up behind them, some with a portrait-like character. A green curtain serves as a backdrop to separate the figurative group from the architectural background visible at the left.

[cda 2021]

Attributions
Hans Kemmer
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Hans Kemmer

[Exhib. Cat. Lübeck 2021, no. 28] [Emmendörffer 1997, 114] [Norberg 1962, 7] [Wentzel 1949, 250]

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Cat. Strängnäs 1911, 46, 47, no. 94]

Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Blomberg 1943, 16]

Production date
about 1540

Production date

about 1540

[Exhib. Cat. Lübeck 2021, no. 28] [Emmendörffer 1997, 113]

Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 112 x 101 cm

Dimensions

  • Dimensions of support: 112 x 101 cm

  • [Emmendörffer 1997, 122]

Signature / Dating

None

Inscriptions and Labels

On the front face of the parapet: 'VOT WAR HE DRVCH VNSE KRANCKHEIT VND LAT VP VNSE SMARTE // …

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

  • On the front face of the parapet:

  • 'VOT WAR HE DRVCH VNSE KRANCKHEIT VND LAT VP VNSE SMARTE // HE IS VMME VNSER MSSEDAT WILLEN VOR WONDET // VND VMME SVNNDE WILLENN THO SLAGENN //'

  • According to [Emmendörffer 1997, 122 fn. 639] a reference to the source 'ESAI.53' was removed during a restoration campaign in 1939

  • 'DE STRAFFE LICHT VP EM VP DAT WIFFREDE HEBBEN'

  • Coat of arms: (t. l. corner): von Höveln: a bend with a red diagonal stripe on a white ground charged with three green trimounts; the crest displays a red stag's head with golden antlers and the mantling is red and white

Stamps, Seals, Labels:

  • Inscription on the frame: 'denna Tafla // är skängt Till bärbo kiörkia aff Hustru Cattarina Brant // ANNO 1715'

  • see also [Emmendörffer 1997, 122 fn. 640]

  • According to [Emmendörffer 1997, 121] the von Brömse coat of arms (t.r. corner) was probably added slightly later to mark the occasion of the couples union. It is considerably abraded but can be read as:

  • a ground divided into three stripe coloured green, gold (yellow) and red, and charged with a black eagle

Owner
Bärbo kyrka, Sverige
Repository
Bärbo kyrka, Sverige
Location
Nyköping
CDA ID
SE_BK_NONE-BK001a
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/SE_BK_NONE-BK001a/

Provenance

  • probably war loot
    [Norberg 1962]
  • Bärbo (Sweden), parish church
    [Emmendörffer 1997, 122]

Exhibitions

Lübeck 2021, no. 28

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Emmendörffer 2021 129-130 Fig. 1
AuthorChristoph Emmendörffer
TitleHans Kemmer. Lübecks Maler in der Reformation.
Publicationin Dagmar Täube, ed., Lucas Cranach der Ältere und Hans Kemmer. Meistermaler zwischen Renaissance und Reformation [Lübeck, St. Annen-Museum]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2021
Pages125-133
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Exhib. Cat. Lübeck 2021 210, 211 028 Fig. p. 211
EditorDagmar Täube
TitleLucas Cranach der Ältere und Hans Kemmer. Meistermaler zwischen Renaissance und Reformation [Lübeck, St. Annen-Museum]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2021
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Heydenreich 2021 B 63
AuthorGunnar Heydenreich
TitleHans Kemmer: Spuren künstlerischer Gestaltungsprozesse. Teil II: Wittenberg
Publicationin Dagmar Täube, ed., Lucas Cranach der Ältere und Hans Kemmer. Meistermaler zwischen Renaissance und Reformation [Lübeck, St. Annen-Museum]
Place of PublicationMunich
Year of Publication2021
Pages59-69
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Emmendörffer 1998 212 Fig. 22.8
AuthorChristoph Emmendörffer
TitleDie selbständigen Cranachschüler
Publicationin Ingo Sandner, Wartburg-Stiftung Eisenach and Fachhochschule Köln, eds., Unsichtbare Meisterzeichnungen auf dem Malgrund. Cranach und seine Zeitgenossen, Exhib. Cat. Eisenach
Place of PublicationRegensburg
Year of Publication1998
Pages203-228
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Emmendörffer 1997 57, 113-123 010 Pl. 10
AuthorChristoph Emmendörffer
TitleHans Kemmer. Ein Lübecker Maler der Reformationszeit
Place of PublicationLeipzig
Year of Publication1997
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Redelius 1985 10 Fig.
AuthorGunnar Redelius
TitleBärbo Kyrka 4 Ed.
Place of PublicationNyköping
Year of Publication1985
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Gedda 1983
AuthorAnn-Marie Gedda
TitleHistorisk idyll i Bärbo
JournalSödermanlands Nyheter
Issue05.08.1983
Year of Publication1983
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Norberg 1962
AuthorRune Norberg
TitleHans Kemmers altartavla i Bärbo Kyrka
JournalSödermanlandsbygden
Issue31
Year of Publication1962
Pages143-152
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Wentzel 1949 246-251
AuthorHans Wentzel
Title(Nachrichten und Hinweise)
JournalZeitschrift des Vereins für Lübecker Geschichte und Altertumskunde
Issue31 (1949)
Year of Publication1949
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Blomberg 1943 16 Figs. pp. 14-15
AuthorCarl Gustav Blomberg
TitleBärbo Kyrka
Place of PublicationEskilstuna
Year of Publication1943
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Leijonhufvud 1937
AuthorKarl Karlson Leijonhufvud
TitleBärbo Kyrka och den inventarier. En historik utarbetad för Södermanlands Nyheter
JournalSödermanlands Nyheter
Issue27.03.1937
Year of Publication1937
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Cat. Strängnäs 1911 46, 47 094 Fig.
AuthorCarl R. af Ugglas
TitleKatalog öfver Södermanlands Fornminnesförenings Kyrkomuseum i Strängnäs
Place of PublicationSträngnäs
Year of Publication1911
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Research History / Discussion

[Emmendörffer 1997, 119] draws the comparision with a painting by the Master of Saint Sang [Detroit Institute of Art online database, accessed 12.05.2021]

Connected Works

Triptych for Gotthard von Höveln [left wing]: The Fall of Man (Adam) [exterior]; Christ is Crowned with Thorns [interior]
  • Triptych for Gotthard von Höveln [left wing]: The Fall of Man (Adam) [exterior]; Christ is Crowned with Thorns [interior], about 1540
  • SE_BK_NONE-BK001b
  • Painting
  • Bärbo kyrka, Sverige
Triptych for Gotthard von Höveln [right wing]: The Fall of Man (Eve) [exterior]; Christ carrying the Cross [interior]
  • Triptych for Gotthard von Höveln [right wing]: The Fall of Man (Eve) [exterior]; Christ carrying the Cross [interior], about 1540
  • SE_BK_NONE-BK001c
  • Painting
  • Bärbo kyrka, Sverige
  • Triptych for Gotthard von Höveln [central panel]: Ecce Homo, about 1540

Images

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Condition Reports

Date1997

With the exception of Christ’s head the faces of the other figures exhibit numerous small to medium-sized paint losses. Particularly extensive damage is evident in the face of the man at the left edge of the painting (forehead, nose, chin), Pilate’s beard and collar, Christ’s chest and his left hand as well as the left side of the soldier beside him [...]

Frame: numerous large losses in the reddish-yellow faux marbling, particularly along the outside.

[Emmendörffer 1997, 122, 123].

Conservation History

Date1939

A text in Swedish from the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 53, 4-5) was removed from the parapet as well as the original reference to the biblical source. Numerous losses were retouched.

[Emmendörffer 1997, 123]

  • conservation treatment by Alfred Nilssons

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