WORKSHOP OF LUCAS CRANACH II (WITTENBERG 1515-1586 WEIMAR) - photo 1
WORKSHOP OF LUCAS CRANACH II (WITTENBERG 1515-1586 WEIMAR) - photo 2

WORKSHOP OF LUCAS CRANACH II (WITTENBERG 1515-1586 WEIMAR)

Lot 103
03.12.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1513561
Lot 103 | WORKSHOP OF LUCAS CRANACH II (WITTENBERG 1515-1586 WEIMAR)
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
WORKSHOP OF LUCAS CRANACH II (WITTENBERG 1515-1586 WEIMAR)
The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion
oil on panel, unframed
20 ¼ x 13 7/8 in. (51.5 x 35.2 cm.), with later additions of approx 0 3/8 in. (1 cm.) to the vertical edges
inscribed 'VATER IN DEIN HET BEFIL ICH MEIN GAIST' (upper left); and 'WARLICH DIESER MENSCH IST GOTES SVN GEWEST' (centre)




Provenance

with Charles Bischoff, Basel, where acquired on 28 May 1984 by the present owner, as 'After Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1539, probably from the Cranach workshop'.



Literature

J.O. Hand with S.E. Mansfield, German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries: The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue, Washington, 1993, pp. 45 and 48, n. 14.
M. Hofbauer, Corpus Cranach: Lucas Cranach I und Lucas Cranach II Verzeichnis der Gemälde unter Berücksichtigung von Werkstattumfeld und Epigonen, Heidelberg, 2022, p. 117, no. CC-BNT-400-039, as 'NN: Werke, die aufgrund fehlender Informationen nicht bewertet werden können'.
Cranach Digital Archive, under no. US_NGA_1961-9-69, n. 8, accessed 30 September 2025, as 'a close replica' of the Washington painting.
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