The Baptist as an Adoring Infant

Title

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Painting on wood

Medium

Painting on wood

[cda 2014]

This panel shows the infant St John the Baptist on a thin strip of pebbly ground against a black backdrop. St John stands, facing to the left with his hands clasped in an attitude of prayer. He is wearing a transparent tunic. The composition suggests that the panel originally had

[cda 2020]

Attributions: Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop
Lucas Cranach the Elder

Attributions

Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop	[cda 2020]
Lucas Cranach the Elder	[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 222C]

Production date: about 1534

Production date

about 1534

[cda 2014]

Dimensions: Dimensions of support: 15 1/2 x 10 in. (39 x 25.5 cm)

Dimensions

Dimensions of support: 15 1/2 x 10 in. (39 x 25.5 cm)
[handwritten annotation D. Koepplin on the reverse of a photograph in the Archive D. Koepplin]

Signature / Dating: None

Inscriptions and Labels

at the top edge: 'S IOHANIS BAPTISTE'

[cda 2014]

Inscriptions and Labels

Inscriptions, Badges:

- at the top edge:
'S IOHANIS BAPTISTE'
[cda 2014]

Owner: Private Collection
Repository: Private Collection

CDA ID: PRIVATE_NONE-P020
FR (1978) Nr.: FR222C
Persistent Link: https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P020/

Provenance

in the collection of Gregor Stroganoff in Rome
sold at Sotheby's, London, 11.03.1931, lot 45a
collection Lazaro, Madrid [Friedländer appears to have mixed up the panel with [ES_FLG_2911]
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 222C]
Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 09.07.1977, lot 45
[handwritten note on the reverse of a b/w photograph; Koepplin Archive]

Literature

Reference on page

Catalogue Number

Figure / Plate

Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979

222C

Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Editor	G. Schwartz
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Basel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication	1979

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Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932

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Author	Max J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
Title	Die Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of Publication	Berlin
Year of Publication	1932
Link	http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932

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The Baptist as an Adoring Infant, about 1534

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