# Virgin and Child with Grapes [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRANACH, Lucas the Elder]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Oil on limewood, 50 x 34 cm ## Commentary Virgin and Child with the Grapes, the Grapes symbolising the Eucharist and Christ's passion, was a subject, which was to inspire the artist throughout his long career. In the present variant the Christ Child stands in a heroic pose inspired by Italian High Renaissance prototypes, rather than seated in his mother's lap. The background is closed off, pushing the figures of the Virgin and Child to the front of the picture plane and investing the composition with a particular immediacy. This treatment of the subject was to provide the prototype for a number of pictures produced in the Cranach workshop in the late 1530s and 1540s all of which date from after 1537. ## Related artworks - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion \(detail\)]() - [A Faun and his Family with a Slain Lion]() - [A Prince of Saxony]() - [A Princess of Saxony]() - [Adam and Eve \(detail\)]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() - [Adam and Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()