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File:The Nymph of the Spring by Lucas Cranach the Elder, after 1537, oil on panel - National Gallery of Art, Washington - DSC09910.JPG

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Lucas Cranach the Elder: The Nymph of the Spring  wikidata:Q20176168 reasonator:Q20176168
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
Work location
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
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artist QS:P170,Q191748
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
German:
Quellnymphe Edit this at Wikidata

The Nymph of the spring
label QS:Len,"The Nymph of the spring"
label QS:Lde,"Ruhende Quellnymphe"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date after 1537
date QS:P571,+1537-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1537-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on lime
Dimensions height: 62.9 cm (24.7 in); width: 87.6 cm (34.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,62.9U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,87.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Accession number
1957.12.1
Object history Probably Baron von Schenck, Flechtingen Castle, near Magdeburg. (Bohler and Steinmeyer, Lucerne and New York, 1931-1933). Clarence Y. Palitz [d.1958], New York, by 1939; gift 1957 to NGA.
Credit line Gift of Clarence Y. Palitz
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FONTIS NYMPHA SACRI SOMNUM NE RUMPE QUIESCO
I am the Nymph of the Sacred Spring. Do not disturb my sleep. I am resting.
Artist's insignia to the right of the inscription: winged serpent with folded wings, facing left
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg (1978) No.: FR403
References National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Cranach Didital Archive
Source/Photographer Own work, Daderot, Taken in 24 April 2013, 14:24:18
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(Reusing this file)		 This painting is in the public domain because the artist died more than 70 years ago.

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