The Infant Christ and Saint John the Baptist

Title

[Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/lucas-cranach-the-elder-the-infant-christ-5403341-details.aspx; accessed 20 Feb 2018]

Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/lucas-cranach-the-elder-the-infant-christ-5403341-details.aspx; accessed 20 Feb 2018]

The painting depicts the infant Christ on the right, holding the cross. Death and the devil lie vanquished at his feet. At the left side the infant St John kneels on the left hand side, and is clothed in fur with a lamb at his side.

Attribution: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attribution

Lucas Cranach the Elder

[http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/searchresults.aspx?searchtype=p; Sale 2415, Old Master and 19th Century Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors Part I, 2011, Lot 10; accessed 20 Feb 2018]

Production date: about 1550 - 1551

Production date

about 1550 - 1551

[Werner Schade in: Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/lucas-cranach-the-elder-the-infant-christ-5403341-details.aspx; accessed 20 Feb 2018]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 20.5 x 16 cm

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 20.5 x 16 cm
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Signature / Dating: Artist's insignia at the top left: serpent with dropped wings

Signature / Dating

Artist's insignia at the top left: serpent with dropped wings

Inscriptions and Labels: none

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

none

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P197
FR (1978) Nr.: FR-none
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P197/

Provenance

with Colnaghi, London
14 January 1888 at Christie's, London, lot 9, as 'L. Cranach'
F.G. Jackel Collection
26 January 2011 at Christie's, New York, lot 10
[Christie's Online database; https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/paintings/lucas-cranach-the-elder-the-infant-christ-5403341-details.aspx; accessed 20 Feb 2018]

The Infant Christ and Saint John the Baptist, about 1550 - 1551

Images

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