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Summary
Lucas Cranach the Elder: A Faun and his family
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| Title |
German: Die Faunfamilie mit erschlagenem Löwen  The Faun family |
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| Object type | painting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genre |
mythological painting |
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| Date | 1531 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paint on beech wood | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 45 cm (17.7 in); width: 34.3 cm (13.5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
Private collection |
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| Object history |
In the collection of a Bavarian Noble Family; Heinz Kisters, Kreuzlingen, acquired from the above; sold at Sotheby's, London, 03 December 2014, lot 13 sold at Sotheby's, London, 06 December 2017, lot 30 |
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| Exhibition history |
Nürnberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Sammlung Heinz Kisters, 25 June - 15 September 1963, cat no. 9, plate 56; Kreuzlingen, Meisterwerke aus der Sammlung Kisters, 1971, cat no. 46, reproduced p. 46; Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Lucas Cranach. Glaube, Mythologie und Moderne, 6 April – 13 July 2003, no. 70; Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Dürer and Cranach. Art and Humanism in Renaissance Germany, 9 October 2007 – 6 January 2008, no. 75; Rome, Gallery Borghese, Cranach - l'altro rinascimento, 15 October 2010 – 13 February 2011, no. 9. |
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| Inscriptions |
bottom left: signed with the artist’s winged serpent device and dated ‚1531‘
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| Notes | Friedländer-Rosenberg (1978) Nr.: FR267A | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| References |
Cranach Digital Archive Corpus Cranach Sotheby's, London, 06 December 2017, lot 30, image |
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| Source/Photographer | Sotheby's London, 03 December 2014, lot 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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