File:Lucas Cranach d.J. - Christus und die Ehebrecherin (Metropolitan Museum of Art).jpg

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Lucas Cranach the Younger: Christ and the Adulteress  wikidata:Q19911576 reasonator:Q19911576
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop  (1515–1586)  wikidata:Q170339
 
Lucas Cranach the Younger and workshop
Description painter, engraver and politician
Date of birth/death 4 October 1515 Edit this at Wikidata 25 January 1586 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lutherstadt Wittenberg Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Work period Renaissance
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Title
Christ and the Adulteress
label QS:Lit,"Cristo e l'adultera"
label QS:Lhu,"Krisztus és a házasságtörő"
label QS:Lsv,"Kristus och äktenskapsbryterskan"
label QS:Lpl,"Chrystus i Jawnogrzesznica"
label QS:Lnl,"Christus en de overspelige vrouw"
label QS:Lca,"Crist i la dona adúltera"
label QS:Lde,"Christus und die Ehebrecherin"
label QS:Len,"Christ and the Adulteress"
label QS:Lru,"Христос и блудница"
label QS:Lfr,"Le Christ et la femme adultère"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Date circa 1545–50
Medium oil on beech wood
Dimensions height: 15.9 cm (6.2 in); width: 21.6 cm (8.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,15.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,21.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
Gallery 643
Accession number
1982.60.35
Credit line The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
Inscriptions

Signed (upper right) with winged serpent (wings folded?);
Text top center:


WER VNTER EVCH ON SVNDE IST. DER WERFFE DEN ERSTEN STEIN AVFF SIE. ~IOH~VIII~
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) Nr.: -
References Cranach Digital Archive
Source/Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 436034)

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