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The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist
Lucas Cranach, the Elder (German, 1472–1553)
about 1508
Medium/Technique
Woodcut
Dimensions
Other (woodcut border): 40.5 x 27.6 cm (15 15/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number45.221
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (relief) 061; Hollstein 86
Signed
Signed on wall, above executioner's head: LC
Marks
Watermark [not identified]; recto, lower right, in ink: 223; verso, stamp in red, in circle: DUBLETTE DES ALBERTINA; MFA stamp with old accession number in graphite: 36202; in graphite: D.I.17S.60; 61[underlined]; 1.9.[??]
ProvenanceAfter about 1922, deaccessioned as a double from the Albertina, Vienna (Lugt 5g). 1945, sold by Richard H. Zinser (dealer; b. 1884 - d. 1984; Lugt 5581), Forest Hills, New York, to the MFA. (Accession Date: April 12, 1945)