File:Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Der Hl. Christophorus.jpg

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Summary

Lucas Cranach the Elder: Saint Christopher

Artist



Alternative names	Lucas Cranach
Description	-German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death	4 October 1472	16 October 1553
Location of birth/death	Kronach	Weimar
Work location	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file	: Q191748 VIAF: 49268177 ISNI: 0000000121319721 ULAN: 500115364 LCCN: n50020861 NLA: 35031951 WorldCat

Title

German:

Der heilige Christophorus

Saint Christopher

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Depicted people

Saint Christopher

Date

between 1518 and 1520

Medium

paint on lime

Dimensions

41.9 × 7.9 cm (16.4 × 3.1 in)

Collection

Detroit Institute of Arts

	Native name	Detroit Institute of Arts
	Location	Detroit, United States of America
	Coordinates	42° 21′ 33.91″ N, 83° 03′ 52.47″ W
	Established	7 October 1927
	Website	www.dia.org
	Authority file	: Q1201549 VIAF: 130157151 ISNI: 0000000121570289 ULAN: 500306739 LCCN: n79045542 NLA: 36174530 WorldCat

Accession number

61.397

Object history

Collection Freiherr Hugo von Mecklenburg auf Pantlitz, 1883
Auction Freiherr von Mecklenburg by Lepke Berlin June 3, 1919, lot. 73
London, Auction Garnier (Christie) July 27, 1928, lot 40
New York, Private Collection; Berlin, art market
Potsdam, private collection (1932)
Munich and New York, Boehler and Steinmeyer (dealers)
New York, Howard Young Galleries (dealer)
Detroit, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fisher, by whom given to the DIA in 1961.

Credit line

Gift of Edward F. Fisher

Inscriptions

Artist‘s insignia bottom left on the stump of the tree: winged serpent with elevated wings facing left; in black paint

Notes

Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) No.: FR110

References

Cranach Digital Archive
Detroit Institute of Arts

Source/Photographer

1./3. The AMICA Library

2. The Detroit Institute of Arts

Licensing

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