About the Artwork
Dr. Christian Bruck, Called Pontanus
1549
Lucas Cranach the Younger
1515-1586
German
Unknown
Woodcut printed in black ink on wove paper
Image and sheet: 7 1/8 × 6 1/8 inches (18.1 × 15.6 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S335
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, on block, upper left: 1549 | [artist's device]
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Stamp, verso: Scripps 1886 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
October 1886, (F. Keppel & Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Lucas Cranach the Younger, Dr. Christian Bruck, Called Pontanus, 1549, woodcut printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S335.
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