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Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (Cranach)

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Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery is a series of around thirty paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder and his studio, in which his son Lucas Cranach the Younger was prominent. It shows the eponymous scene from the Gospel of John (8:1–11) in the New Testament. The earliest surviving versions were painted in the 1520s by Cranach himself, with the later ones attributed to his studio.

List

Image Attribution Date Support Dimensions (cm) Collection
Elder c. 1520 limewood 80,5 x 108,2 Fränkische Galerie, Kronach
Elder 1532 limewood 82,5 × 121 Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Elder 1533 beechwood 84 x 118 National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Younger after 1532 Copper, transferred
from panel		 84 x 123 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Elder and studio after 1537 panel 77 x 124 Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Elder and studio after 1537 limewood 76 x 121 Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Younger after 1537 panel 74,3 x 121,9 Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
Elder and studio c. 1535–1540 limewood 81,7 x 147,2 Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Younger 1545 limewood 72,8 x 120 Staatsgalerie Aschaffenburg, Schloss Johannisburg
Younger and studio 1549 canvas, transferred
from panel		 114 x 176 Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Younger c. 1545–1550 beechwood 15,9 x 21,6 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Unknown (copy) 1700-present panel 92,5 x 121,5 National Museum, Oslo

Notes

  1. Includes the inscription "WER VUNTER EUCH ON SVNDE IST DER WERFFE DEN ERSTEN STEIN AVFF SIE: IOHAN: AMVIII CAP" ("Let he who is without sin cast the first stone: John Chapter 8") but no signature. It probably came to Sweden in 1648 in connection with Pragrovet during the Thirty Years' War.
  2. Includes the inscription "WER VUNTER EUCH ON SVNDE IST DER WERFFE DEN ERSTEN STEIN AVFF SIE: IOHAN: AMVIII CAP" ("Let he who is without sin cast the first stone: John Chapter 8"). Bears Cranach's signature, a winged dragon, below the inscription. Based on the shape of the dragon's wings, it can be determined that it was executed after 1537. The painting was owned by Gustav Vasa at Gripsholm Castle in the middle of the 16th century.

References

  1. sammlung.pinakothek.de
  2. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
  3. National Gallery of Canada
  4. Hermitage
  5. Nationalmuseum
  6. Nationalmuseum
  7. Chrysler Museum of Art
  8. Gogle Arts & Culture
  9. lucascranach.org
  10. Klassik Stiftung Weimar
  11. sammlung.pinakothek.de
  12. rkd.nl
  13. Google Arts & Culture
  14. Metropolitan Museum of Art
  15. National Museum
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