Madonna and Child in a Landscape

Madonna and Child in a Landscape

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[North Carolina Museum of Art, revised 2014]

The Virgin and child are shown seated on a grassy verge in an expansive landscape. While she looks out at the viewer, she offers the naked infant, sitting on a cushion on her lap, some grapes. The foreground and background are separated by a bushy facade and a single tree.

The Virgin and child are shown seated on a grassy verge in an expansive landscape. While she looks out at the viewer, she offers the naked infant, sitting on a cushion on her lap, some grapes. The foreground and background are separated by a bushy facade and a single tree.

[cda 2016]

Attribution
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[North Carolina Museum of Art online database, accessed 20.01.2022]

Dating
about 1518

Dating

about 1518

[North Carolina Museum of Art online database, accessed 20.01.2022]

Dimensions
Dimension of support: 41.9 x 26.0 cm (16 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.)

Dimensions

Labels

Label on reverse: 'E. and A. Silberman Galleries 32 East 57th St. New York 22, NY 2142 Lucas Cranach …

Labels

later inscription, stamps, seals, labels:

  • Label on reverse: 'E. and A. Silberman Galleries 32 East 57th St. New York 22, NY 2142 Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, 1472-1553) The Virgin and Child'

  • [North Carolina Museum of Art, revised 2014]

Owner
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Repository
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Location
Raleigh
CDA ID
US_NCMAR_2000-3
FR (1978) Nr.
FR-none
Persistent Link
https://lucascranach.org/en/US_NCMAR_2000-3/

Provenance

- Philipp von Gomperz Collection, Vienna, Austria (looted by the Nazis, 1940; restituted, 2000)
- acquired by the North Carolina Museum of Art as the partial gift of Cornelia and Marianne Hainisch in tribute to their great-uncle Philipp von Gomperz, and as a partial purchase with funds from the State of North Carolina, Mrs. George Khuner, Howard Young, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, D. H. Cavat (in memory of W.R. Valentiner), Ernest V. Horvath, and Arthur Leroy and Lila Fisher Caldwell, by exchange, and Thomas S. Kenan III
[North Carolina Museum of Art, revised 2014]

  • Madonna and Child in a Landscape, about 1518

Images

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License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Technical studies

03. 2013Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • UV-light photography
  • uv_light
  • photographed by North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

03. 2013Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • Infrared reflectography
  • irr

DESCRIPTION

- an underdrawing is not readily visible; smell dark lines may have been executed in a fluid medium with a brush

[Sandner, Smith-Contini, Heydenreich, cda 2016]

  • photographed by North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

03. 2013Technical examination / Scientific analysis

  • X-radiography
  • x_radiograph
  • created by North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

Condition Reports

Date25.08.2014

- cradled

[cda 2014]

Versions1

Madonna and Child
  • Madonna and Child, about 1516
  • NL_BMM_3465
  • Painting
  • Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Rijswijk

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