Virgin and Child in a Landscape

Artist Lucas Cranach the Elder German, circa 1472–1553

Datecirca 1518

MediumOil on panel

Dimensionsoverall: 16 1/2 × 10 1/4 in. (41.9 × 26 cm)
frame: 21 5/8 × 15 7/8 × 2 3/8 in. (54.9 × 40.3 × 6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePhilipp von Gomperz Collection, Vienna, Austria (looted by the Nazis, 1940; restituted, 2000). Acquired by the North Carolina Museum of Art as the partial gift of Cornelia and Marianne Hainisch in tribute to their great-uncle Philipp von Gomperz, and as a partial purchase with funds from the State of North Carolina, Mrs. George Khuner, Howard Young, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, D. H. Cavat (in memory of W. R. Valentiner), Ernest V. Horvath, and Arthur Leroy and Lila Fisher Caldwell, by exchange, and Thomas S. Kenan III Frame donated anonymously in memory of family members who survived the Holocaust.

Object number2000.3

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On view

ProvenanceFriedrich Jakob Gsell (1811/12–1871), Vienna; (sale, Plach, Vienna, 14 March 1872, lot 195); Josefine (Gomperz) von Wertheimstein (1820–1894), Vienna; (by inheritance?) Philipp von Gomperz (1860–1944), Vienna, Austria and Montreaux, Switzerland; illegally confiscated by the Gestapo, 1940; transferred to Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, 1942; acquired by Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974), Gauleiter (Governor) of Vienna, 1943; to Alfred Helmut Jacob, Vienna, 1944; sold to art dealer Siegfried Thalheimer, New York, 1950; with E. & A. Silberman Galleries, New York, 1950; sold to Georg(e) Khuner (1886–1952) and wife Marianne Stern Khuner (1890–1984), Beverly Hills, CA, ca. 1952; deeded as a gift to the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1964, donors retaining lifetime possession; received by NCMA after the death of Mrs. Khuner, 1984; ownership transferred from NCMA to Marianne and Cornelia Hainisch, heirs of Philipp von Gomperz, Vienna, 2000; re-acquired by NCMA 2000.

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