DETAILS
- Artist
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Date
- 1472
- Medium
- Woodcut
- Location
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- Image: 6 1/8 × 5 1/2 in. (15.5 × 14 cm)
- Collection
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931
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