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Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, revised 2017]

God the Father is represented in a Gloriole presiding over an expansive landscape. This is framed by a cloud with angels' heads. In his left hand he holds a globe on which the Holy Spirit alighted in the form of a dove and with his right hand he supports Christ on the cross that projects diagonally into the pictorial space. The coats-of-arms of the families Heller and Wolffsthal from Nuremberg are shown in the upper corners. [Görres, cda 2015]

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, revised 2017]

Production date: about 1518

Production date

about 1518

[cda 2017]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 41 x 28.6 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 41 x 28.6 cm
[Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, revised 2017]

Owner: Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, Miami
Repository: Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, Miami
Location: Miami

CDA ID: US_VMG_DC467440
FR (1978) Nr.: FR098A
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/US_VMG_DC467440/

Provenance

before 1929 Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Schloss Buckeburg (collection), Schaumburg, Lower Saxony, Germany (Catalog 1932: no. 87 (version)
-1929 purchased by Julius Bohler (dealer), Munich, on behalf of John Ringling (collection), Sarasota, Florida and N.V. Internationale Antiquiteitenhandel (dealer), Amsterdam (shared ownership) Bohler stock card 102-29)
-1929 J. Bohler and Steinmeyer, Luzern, Switzerland (Catalog 1929: no. 13)
by 1967 Claire Mendel (collection), Miami Beach, Florida (Catalog 1967: no. 8)
1984 - present: Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami, Florida (Cat. No. DC 467440)

Conclusion:
Provenance data remain inconclusive. It is not known if the painting was sold in 1929, where it was or who owned it during the period 1933-1945, or how or from whom Mendel acquired it in or before 1967.
[Vizcaya Museum & Gardens, revised 2017]

Exhibitions

New York 1929, No. 13
Miami 1967, No. 24

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

98A

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

Show Literature

Exhib. Cat.Coral Gables 1967

Author	n. a.
Title	-Five Centuries of Northern European Masterworks from the Collection of Claire Mendel. [Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables]
Place of Publication	Coral Gables
Year of Publication	1967

Show Literature

Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932

087 (mentioned under)

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

Show Literature

Exhib. Cat. New York 1929

Author	n. a.
Title	Exhibition of Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder [New York, Van Diemen Galleries]
Place of Publication	New York
Year of Publication	1929

Show Literature

, about 1518

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