id: 135428 accession number: 1958.425 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.425 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:45.252000 Hunting near Hartenfels Castle, 1540. Lucas Cranach (German, 1472–1553). Oil, originally on wood, transferred to masonite; framed: 133 x 185.5 x 7.3 cm (52 3/8 x 73 1/16 x 2 7/8 in.); unframed: 116.8 x 170.2 cm (46 x 67 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1958.425 title: Hunting near Hartenfels Castle title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1540 creation date earliest: 1540 creation date latest: 1540 current location: 114 Late Northern Renaissance creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany, 16th century technique: oil, originally on wood, transferred to masonite department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - German before 1800 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Lucas Cranach (German, 1472–1553) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 133 x 185.5 x 7.3 cm (52 3/8 x 73 1/16 x 2 7/8 in.); Unframed: 116.8 x 170.2 cm (46 x 67 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right on boat with a winged serpent, and dated: 1540 [inventory number, lower right: 1577] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: A Cleveland Bestiary opening date: 1981-10-15T04:00:00 A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981). title: Visions of Landscape: East and West opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). title: Lucas Cranach: Ein Maler-Unternehmer aus Franken opening date: 1994-05-17T04:00:00 Lucas Cranach: Ein Maler-Unternehmer aus Franken. Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig (May 17-July 1, 1994); Fortress of Rosenberg Kronach (September 7-November 6, 1994). title: Faith and Power: Saxony in the Europe of the Reformation Era opening date: 2004-05-24T00:00:00 Faith and Power: Saxony in the Europe of the Reformation Era. Hartenfels Castle, Torgau, Dresden, Germany (May 24-October 10, 2004). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009). title: Arms and Armor from Imperial Austria opening date: 2008-02-24T00:00:00 Arms and Armor from Imperial Austria. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-June 1, 2008). title: Lucas Cranach. L'altro rinascimento opening date: 2010-10-13T00:00:00 Lucas Cranach. L'altro rinascimento. Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy (organizer) (October 13, 2010-March 3, 2011). title: Luther and the Princes opening date: 2015-05-15T00:00:00 Luther and the Princes. Schloss Hartenfels, Torgau, Germany (May 15-November 1, 2015). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Lucas Cranach d. A und Lucas Cranach d. J. Staatliche Museen (duetsches Museum) Berlin, Germany (1937).', 'opening_date': '1937-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Royal Collection of Saxony, Schloss Hartenfels and Schloss Moritzburg, consigned to M.H. Drey date: 1540-1950s footnotes: *
On October 4, 1543, Cranach was paid 123 florins, 10 groschen, and 8 pfennig for various works (Staatsarchiv, Weimar Reg. Bb. 4551, Bl. 24b (Schuchardt [1851] 162ff.), including a hunting picture presented to Duke Maurice of Saxony [1521-1553], presumably the Cleveland painting.  Cranach had been appointed court painter to the Electors of Saxony in 1505 by Frederick the Wise.   A House of Saxony inventory number (1577) is inscribed in the lower right corner of the painting.  The painting remained at Schloss Hartenfels, Torgau for generations, and with the Dukes of Saxony at Schloss Moritzburg until the 1950s.  
citations: (M.H. Drey, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: Until 1958 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1958- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Margaret H. Drey, letter to Henry Sayles Francis, April 9, 1959, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Margaret H. Drey, letter to Henry Sayles Francis, March 18, 1959, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Margaret H. Drey, letter to Henry Sayles Francis, March 18, 1959, in CMA curatorial file.

page number: url: Margaret H. Drey, letter to Henry Sayles Francis, April 9, 1959, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: Cranach-Ausstellung: Lucas Cranach d. Ä., und Lucas Cranach d. J., Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, april-juni 1937 im Deutschen Museum Berlin. Berlin: Staatliche Museen, 1937. page number: url: Schade, Werner, Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach, and Hans Cranach. Cranach, a Family of Master Painters. New York: Putnam, 1980. page number: url: Schuchardt, Christian. Lucas Cranach des Aeltern leben und werke. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1851. page number: url: Flechsig, Eduard. Cranachstudien. Leipzig, Germany: K.W. Hiersemann, 1900. page number: Reproduced: p. 275; Mentioned: p. 288 url: Friedländer, Max J., and Jakob Rosenberg. Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach. Berlin, Germany: Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, 1932. page number: Reproduced: no. 331a, p. 91 url: Lilienfein, Heinrich. Lukas Cranach und seine Zeit. Bielefeld, Germany: Velhagen & Klasing, 1944. page number: Reproduced: p. 86 url: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vinzenz Oberhammer, Friderike Klauner, and Günther Heinz. Katalog der Gemäldegalerie. Wien, Austria: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1958. page number: Reproduced: p. 39, no. 117 url: Francis, Henry S. "The Stag Hunt by Lucas Cranach the Elder and Lucas Cranach the Younger." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XLVI, no. 10 (November, 1959):198-205. page number: Reproduced: p. 198-199, fig. 1 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 108 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n132 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 108 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n132 Schütz, Karl. Lucas Cranach der Ältere und seine Werkstatt. Jubiläumsausstellung museumseigener Werke, 1472-1972. Wien, Austria: Kunsthist. Museum, 1972. page number: Reproduced: p. 32 url: Museo del Prado. Museo del Prado: catálogo de las pinturas. Madrid, Spain: El Museo, 1972. page number: Reproduced: 0. 165, no. 2175 url: Lurie, Ann T. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings. Cleveland, OH: The Museum, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 162-165; Reproduced: p. 163 url: Schade, Werner. Die Malerfamilie Cranach. Dresden, Germany: Verlag der Kunst, 1974. page number: Reproduced: p. 210 and 211 url: Findeisen, Peter, and Heinrich Magirius. Die Denkmale der Stadt Torgau. Leipzig, Germany: Seemann, VEB, 1976. page number: Reproduced: p. 108-109, plates 64, 65 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 128 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n148 Morse, John D. Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1979. page number: Reproduced: p. 77 url: Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 9; Mentioned: p. 7-11, p. 60 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 162-164; Reproduced: p. 163 url: Weber, Erwin. Cranach and Luther: With Selected Works of the "Painting Evangelist" in the United States. St. Louis, MO: Concordia Pub. House, 1983. page number: Reproduced: p. 60, plate 42 url: Grimm, Claus, Johannes Erichsen, and Evamaria Brockhoff. Lucas Cranach: ein Maler-Unternehmer aus Franken. Augsburg, Germany: Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte, 1994. page number: Reproduced: no. 131; Mentioned: p. 311-313 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum, 1998. page number: Reproduced: p. 135 url: Kolb, Karin, and Harald Marx. Cranach: [anlässlich der Ausstellung Cranach vom 13. November 2005 bis 12. März 2006 in den Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz ; eine Ausstellung in Kooperation mit der Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden]. Köln, Germany: Wienand, 2005. page number: Reproduced: p. 160, fig. 72 url: Ferino Pagden, Sylvia, and Andreas Beyer. Tizian versus Seisenegger: die Portraits Karls V. mit Hund : ein Holbeinstreit. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2005. page number: Mentioned: p. 169; Reproduced: p. 171, fig. 4a url: Klein, Holger A. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Reproduced: cat. 112, Mentioned: p. 294, 295 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Arms & Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Reproduced: p. 155 url: Treasures of the Cleveland Museum of Art. London: United Kingdom: Scala Books, 2012. page number: Reproduced: p. 168-169 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 179 url: Greub, Suzanne. Von Meisterhand: die Cranach-Sammlung des Musée des beaux-arts de Reims. Munich, Germany: Hirmer, 2015. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 54-55, Abb. 6 url: Gengler, Matthew. "You Ask, We Answer." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58, no. 5 (September/October 2018): 22. page number: Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 22. url: Cranach, Lucas, Lucas Cranach, and Michael Hofbauer. Corpus Cranach: Lucas Cranach I und Lucas Cranach II : Verzeichnis der Gemälde unter Berücksichtigung von Werkstattumfeld und Epigonen. Heidelberg, 2022. page number: Reproduced: p. 481, CC-SJM-100-006 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.425/1958.425_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.425/1958.425_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.425/1958.425_full.tif