File:Lucas Cranach d.Ä. - Die heilige Barbara in einer bewaldeten Landschaft.jpg

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Summary

Lucas Cranach the Elder: Saint Barbara

Artist



Alternative names	Lucas Cranach
Description	-German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death	4 October 1472	16 October 1553
Location of birth/death	Kronach	Weimar
Work location	Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file	: Q191748 VIAF: 49268177 ISNI: 0000000121319721 ULAN: 500115364 LCCN: n50020861 NLA: 35031951 WorldCat

Title

German:

Die Heilige Barbara

St. Barbara in a wooded landscape

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Depicted people

Saint Barbara

Date

circa 1530

Medium

oil on beech wood

Dimensions

height: 73 cm (28.7 in); width: 56.5 cm (22.2 in)

Collection

Johanniterkirche

	Native name	Johanniterkirche
	Parent institution	Sammlung Würth
	Location	Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
	Coordinates	49° 06′ 47.52″ N, 9° 43′ 57.36″ E
	Established	2008
	Authority file	: Q1628138

Accession number

9325

Object history

with Julius Böhler, Munich, from whom purchased by Leopold Hugo Klotz in the 1920s. Stolen by Hermann Goering during the 2nd World War and restituted to Mr. and Mrs. Klotz after the war, having been discovered in a salt mine in Germany.

Inscriptions

signed with the artist's serpent device (center left, on the rocks)

Notes

Friedländer-Rosenberg (1978) Nr.: FR165

References

museum-digital, baden-württemberg
Cranach Digital Archive

Source/Photographer

1. Christie's, LotFinder: entry 4684670 (sale 1620, lot 14, New York, 6 April 2006)
2. sueddeutsche.de

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