About the Artwork
Madonna and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels
1536
Lucas Cranach the Elder
1472-1553
German
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Oil on wood panel
Overall: 46 × 31 5/8 inches (116.8 × 80.3 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase
23.31
Public Domain
Markings
Signed and dated, upper right: 1536 | [artist's coat-of arms with winged dragon]
Provenance
1921-1923, Collection Arthur Sulley (London, England);1923-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Walther, J. "Founders Society Presents an Important Painting." Bulletin of the DIA 5, 2 (November 1923): pp. 10-11 (cover ill.).
Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, no. 43 (ill.).
Richardson, E.P. "A New Cranach." Bulletin of the DIA 15, 7 (1935-1936): pp. 100-102 (ill.).
Friedländer, M. J. and J. Rosenberg. Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach. Berlin, 1932, no. 189.
Kuhn, C.L. A Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1936, p. 39, no. 106.
Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts, Catalogue of Paintings. Detroit, 1944, p. 32, no. 43.
Friedländer, M. J. and J. Rosenberg. The Paintings of Lucas Cranach. London, 1978, p. 115, no. 228. [under which authors cite eight similar variant paintings]
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, Madonna and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist and Angels, 1536, oil on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 23.31.
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