Madonna and Child

probably c. 1535 or after

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Artist, German, 1472 - 1553

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 35

Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Probably H. Michels Gallery, Berlin, by 1929).[1] (Van Diemen & Co., New York, by November, 1929).[2] Adolph Caspar Miller, Washington, by April 1937;[3] gift 1953 to NGA.
[1] Unverified, but cited by Friedländer, Max J. and Jakob Rosenberg. Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach. Berlin, 1932: 87, no. 314, repro. (Rev. ed. The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, Amsterdam, 1978, 147, no. 390, repro.). The reproduction caption says "formerly" with H. Michels.
[2] Exhibited at the Van Diemen Galleries, New York; the exact dates of the show are not known, but there was an advertisement for the exhibition in the New York Times, 17 November 1929, section 9. In 1935 the Berlin branches van Diemen and its affiliated galleries were liquidated by order of the Nazis, with sales organized by Graupe on 25 January and 26 April. This painting was not in either of those sales, and thus had been sold from or remained with the New York branch between 1929-1935.
[3] Listed as belonging to Miller in the catalogue of the 1937 exhibition Paintings and Sculpture Owned in Washington, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, 1937, no. 6.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Lucas Cranach (1472-1553), Van Diemen Galleries, New York, 1929.

1937

  • Paintings and Sculpture Owned in Washington, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, no. 6.

Bibliography

1932

  • Friedländer, Max J. and Jakob Rosenberg. Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach. Berlin, 1932: 87, no. 314, repro. (Rev. ed. The Paintings of Lucas Cranach, Amsterdam, 1978: 147, no. 390, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 33.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 27, repro.

1971

  • Calvesi, Maurizio. "Caravaggio o la ricerca della salvazione." Storia dell'arte 9/10 (1971): 98, fig. 7.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 86, repro. 87.

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 165, no. 188, repro.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 165, no. 182, color repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 104, repro.

1988

  • Wheeler, Marion, ed. His Face--Images of Christ in Art: Selections from the King James Version of the Bible, New York, 1988: 126, no. 15, color repro.

1993

  • Hand, John Oliver, with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, 1993: 31-34, color repro. 33.

1995

  • Löcher, Kurt. Review of German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries, by John Oliver Hand with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. Kunstchronik 43 no. 1 (January 1995): 15.

Inscriptions

upper right, above the Madonna's shoulder, the artist's device, a serpent with folded (?) wings

Wikidata ID

Q20176106

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