CRANACH, Lucas the Elder
(b. 1472, Kronach, d. 1553, Weimar)

Venus

1531
Oil on panel, 39 x 25 cm
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

This painting, signed and dated 1531, is the immediate precursor of Cranach's famous Venus in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, which was painted one year later in 1532.




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