The Temptation of Saint Anthony

1506

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Artist, German, 1472 - 1553

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 40.3 x 27.7 cm (15 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.2861

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 76

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 347); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1953

  • Flight, Fantasy, Faith, Fact: A Loan Exhibition Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered Flight, Dayton Art Institute, OH, 1953-1954, no. 103.

1995

  • Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Wikidata ID

Q64960037

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