Advanced Search
Advanced Search

Saint Luke

Lucas Cranach, the Younger (German, 1515–1586)
about 1540–1

Medium/Technique Woodcut
Dimensions Other (woodcut border): 26.3 x 16 cm (10 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 27.5 x 16.7 cm (10 13/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP18979
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 051; Hollstein 3; Dodgson 3
Signed not signed
Marks verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 18979 [Lugt 1870]
Inscriptionsverso, letterpress in German
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall (b. 1848 - d. 1898); 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see note 1]. (Acquisition Date: October 21, 1897)

NOTE:

[1] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.