Portrait of a Man
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1537 · Oil on alder
Public domain
Marked public domain in The Met Collection API (isPublicDomain).
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About this picture
Portrait of a Man is a public-domain painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, dated 1537. Oil on alder. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Portrait of a Man” (1537) has Cranach’s thin, precise line. The picture may be a court portrait or a religious panel from the Wittenberg workshop.
About the artist
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553) was a German Renaissance painter at the Saxon court. He painted portraits and religious panels with a hard, elegant line.
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