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Currently not on display

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Kronach, 1472 - Weimar, 1553

The Temptation of St. Anthony

Date 1506
Materials and Techniques woodcut
Watermarks Posthorn in Shield (Picard 237, date: 1452)
Size(cm) 40.7 x 27.8
Standard ref. Bartsch 56; Geisberg 593; Hollstein 76
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2000-1759

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2001.

Exhibition History

2011
Fantastic Nature: Northern Prints before Rembrandt, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 12 March 2011 - 12 June 2011, cat. no. 1
2014
Voices Calling from the Unusual: Hirano Keiichiro's Selection of Western Art Masterpieces, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 8 April 2014 - 15 June 2014, cat. no. 9
2016
Lucas Cranach the Elder: 500 Years of the Power of Temptation, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 15 October 2016 - 15 January 2017, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, 28 January-16 April, cat. no. 38, col. repr.
2023
Villains in the Frame, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 27 June 2023 - 3 September 2023, cat. no. 22

Bibliography

1900
Flechsig, Eduard. Cranachstudien. Teil 1, Leipzig, K. W. Hiersemann, 1900, p. 20.
1911
Dodgson, Campbell. Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. vol. 2, London, 1911, p. 282.
1953
Katalog der Lucas-Cranach-Ausstellung (exh. cat.). Scheidig, Walther, ed. Weimar/Wittenberg, July - Oktober 1953. Weimar, Deutschen Lucas-Cranach-Komitee, 1953, cat. no. 102
1955
Jahn, Johannes. Lucas Cranach als Graphiker. Leipzig, E. A. Seemann, 1955, p. 19f.
1956
Cuttler, Charles D. Some Grünewald Sources. The Art Quarterly. vol. 19, no. 2, Summer 1956, pp. 110-111, fig. 9.
1962
Halm, Peter. Hans Burgkmair als Zeichner. Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst. Bd. 13, 1962, p. 95.
1973
Lucas Cranach: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik. Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie und Kupferstichkabinett Berlin-Dahlem. Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, 1973, no. 71
1974
Schade, Werner. Die Malerfamilie Cranach. Dresden, 1974, p. 24, fig. 26.
1976
Lukas Cranach: Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Druckgraphik (exh. cat.). Koepplin, Dieter; Falk, Tilman, eds. Kunstmuseum Basel, 15 June - 8 September 1974. Basel, Birkhäuser, 1976, pp. 542-543, no. 398, fig. 287.
1995
German Renaissance Prints 1490-1550 (exh. cat.). Bartrum, Giulia, ed. London, British Museum, 1995, p. 167, no. 168.
2002
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 35 (Apr. 2000-Mar. 2001), 2002, List of New Acquisitions. p. 140.
2007
Cranach der Ältere (exh. cat.). Brinkmann, Bodo, ed. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 23 November 2007 – 17 February 2008; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 8 March – 8 June 2008. Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum, 2007, no. 51.
2016
Lucas Cranach the Elder: 500 Years of the Power of Temptation (exh. cat.). Messling, Guido; Shinfuji Atsushi, eds. Tokyo, TBS Television, 2016, pp. 112, 114, 281, cat. no. 38, col. repr.

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