The Cranach workshop created a large store of pictorial models with attractive details such as heads and animals that could be copied and included in new paintings. The quality of the surviving workshop materials suggests that they were made by the master alone.

For the portraits and models Lucas Cranach perfected a technique which was then seldom used: the oil sketch on prepared paper. He made his studies by this technique.

Preview	Picture Data	File Info	Comment
	The Bad Thief on the Cross 1501-02 Black and white chalk on reddish paper Staatliche Museen, Berlin	700*1173 True Color 151 Kb
	The Good Thief on the Cross 1501-02 Black and white chalk on reddish paper, 226 x 121 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin	526*1000 True Color 68 Kb
	Portrait of a Peasant 1510s Paper, 238 x 168 mm British Museum, London	601*850 True Color 60 Kb
	Portrait of a Clean-shaven Man - Brush drawing British Museum, London	700*1013 True Color 97 Kb
	Young Man with Beret - Chalk drawing Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna	650*985 True Color 111 Kb
	Portrait Study of a Clean-Shaven Man c. 1520 Oil on paper primed with brownish colour over pen and chalk, mounted on canvas, 223 x 160 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin	665*900 True Color 80 Kb
	Portrait Study of Philipp of Solms-Lich c. 1520 Oil on lightly primed paper, 179 x 132 mm Stadtmuseum, Bautzen	535*700 True Color 57 Kb
	Portrait Study of Hans Luther c. 1527 Oil on paper Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna	757*900 True Color 89 Kb
	Study of the Head of a Peasant 1520-25 Watercolour with opaque white highlights, 193 x 157 mm Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel	567*700 True Color 75 Kb
	Portrait Study of a Young Man c. 1530 Pen, black chalk and oil on paper primed in brownish colour, 262 x 199 mm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles	696*900 True Color 78 Kb
	Study of Three Female Heads c. 1530 Oil over black chalk on paper mounted on oak panel, 125 x 269 mm Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro	1101*500 True Color 55 Kb
	Suicide of Lucretia 1509 Ink and wash on paper, 131 x 95 mm Staatliche Museen, Berlin	540*760 True Color 64 Kb
	Suicide of Lucretia: signature (detail) 1509 Ink and wash on paper Staatliche Museen, Berlin	338*302 True Color 14 Kb
	Study of a Stag (recto) 1520s Brush drawing with watercolour over black chalk, 135 x 167 mm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles	876*700 True Color 85 Kb
	Study of Grazing Goats (verso) 1520s Brush drawing with watercolour over black chalk, 135 x 167 mm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles	893*700 True Color 86 Kb
	Law and Gospel after 1529 Pen and dark brown ink over black pencil, 143 x 196 mm Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt	983*700 True Color 130 Kb
	Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery c. 1530 Pen and dark brown ink over black pencil Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt	813*1020 True Color 138 Kb
	The Martyrdom of St Barbara c. 1513 Pen and ink on paper, 423 x 363 mm Nationalgalerie, Oslo	955*1300 True Color 193 Kb
	The Judgment of Paris 1527-30 Pen and ink on paper, 201 x 144 mm Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig	734*1002 True Color 128 Kb
	Study of Three Female Heads c. 1530 Oil over black chalk on paper, mounted on oak panel, 12 x 27 cm Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro	1232*550 True Color 143 Kb
	Martin Luther c. 1532 Watercolour on parchment, 219 x 191 mm Buccleuch Collection, Boughton House, Kettering	700*795 True Color 166 Kb