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更新日 2021.01.30 | 30 January 2021

展示中 常設展(2020/10/19~2022年春(予定)まで休室) | Permanent collection (Closure period: October 19, 2020 through Spring 2022 (estimated))

ルカス・クラーナハ(父)[クローナハ, 1472年 - ワイマール, 1553年]

ホロフェルネスの首を持つユディト

制作年1530年頃
材質・技法・形状油彩、板
寸法(cm)37.2 x 25
署名・年記右下に有翼の蛇の紋章による署名
Standard ref.FR (1932) 192; FR (1978) 233; CDA PRIVATE_NONE-P121
分類絵画
所蔵番号P.2018-0001
ホロフェルネスの首を持つユディト Judith with the Head of Holofernes

作品解説

断末魔のうめきを残した男の首を手に、身じろぎもせず醒めた視線をこちらに向ける女性──これはドイツ・ルネサンスを代表する画家クラーナハが、みずからの芸術の中核的な主題のひとつであった「ユディト」を描いた貴重な板絵です。小ぶりながら保存状態にも恵まれています。おのれの美貌と酒によって敵将ホロフェルネスを酔わせて斬首し、故郷ベトリアを救ったユディト。その勇ましくも蠱惑的な「女のちから」が、最盛期のクラーナハに特有のデリケートな描写をつうじて浮かびあがります。(出典: 展示室作品解説パネル、2020年8月)

来歴

(Presumably) George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1747-1813), Arlosen Castle, Bad Arolsen, Hesse Germany; by whom given to his daughter; Princess Ida Caroline of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1796-1869), according to an inscription, verso, and her husband George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1784-1860), Bückeburg, Niedersachsen, Lower Saxony, presumably on the occasion of their wedding, 23 June 1816; and by descent to their son; Adolf I, Prince Schaumburg-Lippe (1817-1893), m. Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont; and by descent to their son; Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1846-1911), m. Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg; and by descent to their son; Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1883-1936); Rosenbaum, Frankfurt-am-Main, acquired from the above in 1929; Dr. Wilfried Greif (1883-1937), New York, by 1932; Galerie Nathan, Zürich, inv. no. 956 (according to a label, verso); private collection, Germany, acquired from the above in the 1960s; and by descent; purchased by NMWA, 3 August 2018.

文献歴

1932
Friedländer, Max J.; Rosenberg, Jokob. Die Gamälde von Lucas Cranach. Berlin, Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1932, S. 66, Nr. 192.
1972
Nathan Peter; Nathan, Fritz. Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 1922-1972. Zürich, 1972, Nr. 4.
1978
Friedländer, Max J.; Rosenberg, Jokob. The Paintings of Lucas Cranach. Norden, Heinz; Taylor, Ronald, trans. Revised ed., London, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978, p. 116, no. 233.

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Lucas Cranach the Elder [Kronach, 1472 - Weimar, 1553]

Judith with the Head of Holofernes

Dateca. 1530
Materials/Techniquesoil on panel
Size (cm)37.2 x 25
InscriptionsSigned lower right with the winged serpent device
Standard ref.FR (1932) 192; FR (1978) 233; CDA PRIVATE_NONE-P121
CategoryPaintings
Collection NumberP.2018-0001
Judith with the Head of Holofernes

A woman holds up the freshly severed head of a man, staring unflinchingly out at the viewer. Here the major German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder depicts an important work on one of his favorite themes, the Hebrew heroine Judith. While small in scale, this panel painting is in very well condition. Judith saved her home city of Bethulia by seducing the attacking general Holofernes with her beauty, and then killing him as he lay drunk on wine. The power of this brave, alluring woman emerges from this image created in Cranach's distinctively delicate brushwork characteristic of his mature period. (Source: Gallery label, August 2020)

Provenance

(Presumably) George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1747-1813), Arlosen Castle, Bad Arolsen, Hesse Germany; by whom given to his daughter; Princess Ida Caroline of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1796-1869), according to an inscription, verso, and her husband George William, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1784-1860), Bückeburg, Niedersachsen, Lower Saxony, presumably on the occasion of their wedding, 23 June 1816; and by descent to their son; Adolf I, Prince Schaumburg-Lippe (1817-1893), m. Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont; and by descent to their son; Georg, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1846-1911), m. Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg; and by descent to their son; Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe (1883-1936); Rosenbaum, Frankfurt-am-Main, acquired from the above in 1929; Dr. Wilfried Greif (1883-1937), New York, by 1932; Galerie Nathan, Zürich, inv. no. 956 (according to a label, verso); private collection, Germany, acquired from the above in the 1960s; and by descent; purchased by NMWA, 3 August 2018.

Bibliography

1932
Friedländer, Max J.; Rosenberg, Jokob. Die Gamälde von Lucas Cranach. Berlin, Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1932, S. 66, Nr. 192.
1972
Nathan Peter; Nathan, Fritz. Dr. Fritz Nathan und Dr. Peter Nathan, 1922-1972. Zürich, 1972, Nr. 4.
1978
Friedländer, Max J.; Rosenberg, Jokob. The Paintings of Lucas Cranach. Norden, Heinz; Taylor, Ronald, trans. Revised ed., London, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1978, p. 116, no. 233.

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