File:Lucas Cranach (I) - Christ Blessing the Children - Sammlung Würth Johanniterkirche.jpg

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Lucas Cranach the Elder: Christ blessing the children  wikidata:Q114201141 reasonator:Q114201141
Artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Weimar
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artist QS:P170,Q191748
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
German:
Christus segnet die Kinder Edit this at Wikidata

Christ Blessing the Children
label QS:Lde,"Christus segnet die Kinder"
label QS:Len,"Christ Blessing the Children"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Genre religious art Edit this at Wikidata
Date After 1537
Medium paint on beech wood
Dimensions height: 72.2 cm (28.4 in); width: 121.6 cm (47.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,72.2U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,121.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q1628138
Current location
Johanniterkirche, Schwäbisch Hall
Accession number
Inv 10816
Object history Georg Schäfer, Obbach, by whom sold Cologne, Lempertz, 24 May 1982, lot 23 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder), when acquired by the last owner.
sold at Sotheby's London, 07 July 2005, lot 24
Exhibition history Basel, Kunstmuseum, Lukas Cranach, 1974, no. 367 (as by Lucas Cranach the Younger);
Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Martin Luther und die Reformation in Deutschland, 1983, no. 349 (as by Lucas Cranach the Elder).
Inscriptions signed upper right with the artist's device of a winged serpent and inscribed along the upper margin: LASSET DIE KINDLEIN ZV MIR KOMMEN VND VERET INEN NICHT DEN SOLCHER IST DAS HIMMELREICH MAR X
Notes FR (1978) No.: FR362E
References
Source/Photographer 1. Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork
2. Sotheby's London, 07.07.2005, lot 24

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