Lucas Cranach the Elder

Virgin and Child

Lucas Cranach the Elder
Virgin and Child

c. 1515-1520 展览中 房间6

In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, numerous pictures were made of the Virgin and her child Jesus. This Madonna is by the German artist Lucas Cranach. He painted her with a beautiful, round idealised face and long wavy hair. She is looking ahead rather submissively, while her child tries to pluck a grape – a remarkably playful gesture. Two cherubs are holding up a cloth by way of a baldachin.

技术细节

Lucas Cranach the Elder
Virgin and Child

c. 1515-1520 展览中 房间6

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详情

基本信息
艺术家 Lucas Cranach the Elder (Kronach 1472 - 1553 Weimar)
书名 Virgin and Child
日期 c. 1515-1520
物品名称 painting
库存数量 917
展览中 房间6
材料和技术细节
技术 oil
材料 panel
规格 62.7 x 42 cm

来源

Karl Max von Lichnowsky, Grätz and Kuchelna, Silesia, before 1906 until June 1926; sold by Lichnowsky to Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer and Galerie Matthiesen, both in Berlin, 30 June 1926 (16,000 reichsmark, both dealers paid 8,000 reichsmark); sold by both dealers to Amsterdam’sche Kunsthandel Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, 22 July 1926 (20,500 guilders); sold to Hans Wilhelm Christiaan Tietje, Amsterdam, in or before 1932 (probably already in 1926; presumably for 50,000 guilders); pledged by Tietje to Daniël Wolf, Wassenaar; sold by Tietje to Alois Miedl on commission of Walter Andreas Hofer, June 1940 (35,000 guilders); transferred by Miedl to Kunsthandel Goudstikker-Miedl, Amsterdam; sold to Göring (Hofer paid Miedl 35,000 guilders); Hermann Göring, Carinhall, near Berlin, since 10 June 1940 (stored in Kurfürst and since 16 April 1945 stored in Berchtesgaden, where it was found after the Second World War); Central Collecting Point, Munich, 1 August 1945; Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit (inv. no. NK 3071), 1946; on loan to the Mauritshuis, 1953-1955; transferred, 1960

Second World War

This painting is part of the Netherlands Art Property Collection (‘NK collection’): objects that were stolen, seized or purchased during the Nazi regime. After the Second World War they were placed under the administration of the Dutch State. In recent decades, applications for restitution are taken into consideration again and some objects have been returned to the heirs of their rightful owners.

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