Portrayals of the Virgin and Child were among the favourite themes of Cranach, the Wittenberg court painter. Although the number of surviving pictures shows that this was an extremely successful product, Cranach carried out the many versions with great care. Even after the beginning of the Reformation, his pictures of the Virgin were bought not only by the Old Believers, Luther himself took a comparatively liberal view of devotional pictures and might well have owned an image of the Virgin.

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	Virgin and Child with a Bunch of Grapes 1509-10 Oil on panel, 72 x 44 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
	Madonna and Child with the Infant St John c. 1512 Oil and tempera on limewood, 76 x 59 cm Private collection
	Madonna and Child with the Infant St John 1514 Oil and tempera on wood, 71 x 44 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
	Virgin and Child c. 1518 Tempera and oil on limewood, 41 x 31 cm Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
	Virgin and Child (detail) c. 1518 Tempera and oil on limewood Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
	The Virgin of the Grapes 1520-25 Oil and tempera on beechwood, 60 x 42 cm Alte Pinakothek, Munich
	Virgin and Child under an Apple Tree 1525-30 Oil on canvas transferred from panel, 87 x 59 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
	Virgin and Child (detail) 1525-30 Oil on canvas transferred from panel The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
	Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon 1520-23 Oil and tempera on limewood, 90 x 60 cm Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
	Virgin and Child (Maria Hilfbild) c. 1530 Wood, 40 x 24 cm (without frame) Dom zu St. Jakob, Innsbruck
	Virgin and Child (detail) c. 1530 Wood Dom zu St. Jakob, Innsbruck
	Virgin and Child with Grapes after 1537 Oil and tempera on wood, 77 x 57 cm Private collection
	Virgin and Child with Grapes 1534 Oil on limewood, 50 x 34 cm Private collection
	Virgin and Child 1540s Oil on panel, 21 x 16 cm Private collection