Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder Kronach 1472 - 1553 Weimar

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 GBP

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Description

Lucas, the elder Cranach
The Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine holding a bunch of grapes, a winged cherub behind
oil on panel

Provenance

The Ducal Palace, Altenburg, East Germany;
With the Van Diemen Gallery, Berlin, 1929;
David Birnbaum collection, Amsterdam, 1932;
Wtih W.E. Duits, London, by 1954;
Mrs. Eva Sardinia Borthwick Norton (d. 1988) of Southwick House, Purbrook, Hampshire, by 1952;
Bequeathed by her Executors to The Royal Scottish Academy in 1990.

Exhibited

Kunstgeschichtliche Ausstellung zu Erfurt, September 1903, no. 35.

Literature

C. Schuchardt, Lucas Cranach des Aeltern Leben und Werke, Leipzig 1851-71, vol. II, p. 11, footnote;
Katalog der kunstgeschichtlichen Ausstellung zu Erfurt, Magdeburg 1903, p. 8, no. 35;
O. Doering and G. Voss, Meisterwerke der Kunst aus Sachsen und Thüringen: Gemälde, Skulpturen, Schnitzaltäre, Medaillen, Buchmalereien, Webereien, Stickereien, edelschmiedekunst, Magdeburg 1905, p. 11;
M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach, Berlin 1932, p. 51, cat. no. 112, reproduced;
M.J. Friedländer and J. Rosenberg, The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, London 1978, p. 96, cat. no. 131, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

Friedländer and Rosenberg (see Literature) date this picture to circa 1520 and mention several other versions of the composition, two of which are very similar and were respectively with the Lilienfeld Gallery, New York, in 1945, and in the Diocesan Museum Sandomierz, Poland, by 1957. A third version, set in an interior, was sold in Cologne, Malmede and Geissendorfer, 14 November 1917. Friedländer and Rosenberg compare the present work to another very similar painting of the Virgin and Child adored by St. John the Baptist, formerly in the Von Caffert collection, Daumenbüttel, near Gifhorn, Germany.