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Lucas Cranach the Elder: Christ on the Cross

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Alternative names	Lucas Cranach
Description	-German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death	4 October 1472	16 October 1553
Location of birth/death	Kronach	Weimar
Work location	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file	: Q191748 VIAF: 49268177 ISNI: 0000000121319721 ULAN: 500115364 LCCN: n50020861 NLA: 35031951 WorldCat

Title

German:

Christus am Kreuz

Christ on the Cross

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

Crucifixion of Jesus

Depicted people

Jesus

Date

between circa 1530 and circa 1535

Medium

paint on panel

Dimensions

height: 41 cm (16.1 in); width: 25.8 cm (10.1 in)

Collection

Private collection

Object history

Alamanno di Stefano, member of Giovanni Battista Rinuccini's retinue on his papal mission to Ireland (1645-1649).
Charles A. Loeser (1864-1928), Torri Gattaia, Florence
Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1959, lot 11 to P. Pearson, and by descent to the former owner.

Inscriptions

signed with the artist's serpent device (lower centre)

Notes

FR (1978) Nr. -

References

Cranach Digital Archive

Source/Photographer

Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5701772 (sale 1136, lot 18, London, 2 July 2013)

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Notes This poignant depiction of Christ on the Cross, which seamlessly blends extreme pictorial refinement with a heightened sense of pathos, is a unique example of Lucas Cranach the Elder's rendition of the theme on such an intimate scale. The picture is little-known as it has remained unpublished since its inclusion in a 1959 London auction. Despite this, the painting's full attribution to Lucas Cranach the Elder has never been challenged and was recently confirmed by Dr. Werner Schade and Dr. Dieter Koepplin, on the basis of photographs (written communication, 18 March 2013). This picture can be dated to circa 1530-1535 on stylistic grounds and is the only Crucifixion securely attributed to Cranach the Elder to focus on the lone figure of Christ, without the usual broader rendition of Calvary. Only two other panels of this dramatic composition are known - one attributed to his studio (Dublin, The National Gallery of Ireland) and another to his son Lucas Cranach the Younger (on parchment; Berlin, private collection). For an artist known to have produced numerous replicas of his own work, this fact alone makes this Crucifixion an absolute rarity. Cranach fills the picture frame with the suffering body of the crucified Christ, thus enhancing the poignancy of the subject. The artist has discarded all of the narrative elements and numerous other figures that usually populate his depictions of Calvary, such as in the busy Crucifixion from circa 1510-1515 (Frankfurt, Städel-Museum). In the Frankfurt panel, fighting for the viewer's attention are the two crucified thieves, below which stands an agitated crowd composed of Christ's followers: John the Evangelist and th

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