File:Lucas Cranach d.J. - Die heilige Jungfrau mit dem Kind und dem schlafenden Johannesknaben.jpg

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Lucas Cranach the Younger: The Virgin and Child with infant Saint John the Baptist sleeping  wikidata:Q111701700 reasonator:Q111701700
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Younger  (1515–1586)  wikidata:Q170339
 
Lucas Cranach the Younger
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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artist QS:P170,Q170339
Formerly attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Formerly attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Weimar
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Title
The Virgin and Child with infant Saint John the Baptist sleeping Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lde,"Die heilige Jungfrau mit dem Kind und dem schlafenden Johannesknaben"
label QS:Len,"The Virgin and Child with infant Saint John the Baptist sleeping"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Date after 1537
date QS:P571,+1537-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1537-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 86.1 cm (33.8 in); width: 57 cm (22.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,86.1U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,57U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history Art market, Paris, 1926
Nikodem Caro (1871-1935), Berlin in 1932 and by descent to the previous owner
Inscriptions

center left:

signed with the artist's device of a serpent with wings folded
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) No.: FR 386
References Cranach Digital Archive
Source/Photographer Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5649706 (sale 2673, lot 137, New York, 30 January 2013)

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